THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SWFL

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THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SWFL

Florence Hertzman Story

May 2016 JHS interviewed Florence Hertzman in her waterfront home in Old Naples. Florence and her husband Harold began coming to Naples in the early

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Stuart Kaye Story

Stuart Kaye moved to Naples, FL as a young college graduate at a time when most young people fled  Collier County in search of big

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Richard Segalman Story

Richard Segalman jokes that in addition to being the first Jewish painter of Naples, he may be the first gay painter of Naples. From his

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Elena Rosner Story

Rosner loved to socialize, but quickly found that her new hometown of Marco Island, which was then being developed by the Deltona Corporation, had neither

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Irv Berzon Story

in NYC, Irv Berzon lived in a number of other places including Bogota, Columbia; Caracas, Venezuela; Seattle, Washington, before settling in Columbus, OH. “I –

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Helen Weinfeld Story

Helen and Joseph Weinfeld first visited Naples in 1954, when it was a “you blink, you miss” kind of town. They loved it, but decided

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Lee Ratner Story

Ratner was a son of a Chicago produce man, who started a mail-order business. He then ventured into pest control. By all accounts he was

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