![]() ![]() Rabbinically trained and traditionally oriented, he was the patriarch of the Jewish community until his death. Jewish services probably began on the High Holidays in 1851 and were more formally established with the arrival of Joseph Newmark (1799–1881) in 1854. Jews came from San Francisco and the East and directly from Germany and promptly set up businesses, or, procuring carts and wagons, began to trade with the prosperous Spanish rancheros. The Jewish population, in the wake of economic expansion, increased rapidly. Goodman, 24, Germany Philip Sichel, 28, Germany Augustine Wasserman, 24, Germany Felix Bachman, 28, Germany Joseph Plumer, 24, Germany and Jacob Frankfort, 40, Germany all were unmarried and merchants, except for Frankfort who was a tailor. A Los Angeles census of 1850 revealed a total of 1,610 inhabitants of which eight are recognizably Jewish: Morris Michaels, aged 19, Portland, Oregon Abraham Jacobi, 25, Poland Morris L. The prosperity filtered down to the rancho country of southern California and to the small town of Los Angeles, which was its marketing and commercial center. The majority did not engage in gold mining but opened stores in the small towns and mining camps of northern California. in 1850 as an aftermath of the Mexican War and the discovery of gold brought a surge of Jews from Western Europe and the Eastern U.S. With them was Jacob Frankfort, the first Jewish resident of Los Angeles. A year later the first party of pioneers traveled overland to Los Angeles from the Middle West of the U.S. The town grew slowly to 1,100 inhabitants by 1840. Los Angeles was formally dedicated as a pueblo on Sept. The origins of the city go back to the early Spanish colonization of California. Los Angeles County is the home of some 552,000 (2003) Jews, second only to New York City. ![]() and the largest city in area in the world. ![]() California with approximately 4,000,000 inhabitants occupying 469 square miles of territory the third most populous city in the U.S. ![]()
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