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
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
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
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
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
in NYC, Irv Berzon lived in a number of other places including Bogota, Columbia; Caracas, Venezuela; Seattle, Washington, before settling in Columbus, OH. “I –
Floridians since 1973, Rabbi Howard Greenstein’s work kept them in Jacksonville, Florida, in a huge congregation with a religious school for 23 years. A small
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
Gerald and Sheila Laboda moved to Fort Myers in 1965, just in time to catch the remnants of outgoing segregation. Gerald was the second Jewish
The Lipman Family – a father with five sons/sons-in-law – first moved to Miami from New York, moving their produce growers/distributors know how with them.
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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