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Conversions 1947-1972, Temple Sinai, New Orleans, LA
Compiled by Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
December 2023
Background
Housed in the Special Collections Archive at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, this collection includes the names of 67 men and women who underwent conversion to Judaism at Temple Sinai in New Orleans, LA by Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman, Rabbi P. Irving Bloom, Rabbi Roy A. Rosenberg and Rabbi Robert A. Rothman.
Contents include GIVEN NAME, SURNAME, CONVERSION DATE, RESIDENCE CITY and STATE, JEWISH NAME ASSIGNED, OFFICIANT, and NOTES.
Digital images can be requested through Tulane University Special Collections at https://tulane.libwizard.com/f/TUSCDuplication.
Order: Temple Sinai Collection, LARC.243, Box 44 has converts 1947-1972, 24 folders filed by year and includes one undated folder with very personal letters to the rabbi on why they are converting to Judaism.
Sample Document:
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