member spotlight Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/tag/member-spotlight/ Nonprofit. Secure. Digital Archives. Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:47:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.permanent.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-Permanent-Icon-512-32x32.png member spotlight Archives - Permanent.org https://www.permanent.org/blog/tag/member-spotlight/ 32 32 Public Archive Spotlight: The Cohen-Snyder Family Archive https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-cohen-snyder-family-archive/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/public-archive-spotlight-the-cohen-snyder-family-archive/#respond Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:12:56 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=5990 In 1888, at the age of eighteen, Micheal Cohen came to America. He established himself in New York City and soon sent for his wife, Freida, to bring her from Minsk to Manhattan. Together they would have eight children. Micheal was Jewish and spoke Yiddish as his first language. He was conscripted into the Russian Army, but felt he had “little desire to serve a country that segregated and discriminated against his faith.” Deciding then to leave Russia for America, he sought work in the fashion industry, eventually finding success alongside several of his sons. One of Micheal and Freida’s daughters, Rose, would marry shoe merchant Morris Snyder —also a child of Jewish immigrants from ...

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]]> https://www.permanent.org/blog/familytreasures/feed/ 0 Celebrating & Honoring Indigenous Legacies & History with Rudy De La Cruz, Jr. https://www.permanent.org/blog/aitscm/ https://www.permanent.org/blog/aitscm/#respond Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:31:53 +0000 https://permanent.org/?p=4897 We are delighted to shine a community spotlight on one of our recent Byte4Byte grantees this month, Rudy De La Cruz, Jr., Director of the Texas Heritage Project of AITSCM.

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