In all, he performed 169 circumcisions during that period. John Eisner, a mohel (circumciser) who moved from Austria to the American West, and travelled on horseback to perform Brit Milah on Jewish babies in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Nebraska between 1887 to 1905. One indication of the number of Jews in the Wild West comes from Dr. The Arizona Territory was also omitted from the survey, though modern scholars estimate that thousands of Jews lived in Tucson, Phoenix, Tombstone, and other towns during that era. Historian Mitchell Gelfand, for example, notes that the survey didn’t even include the fledgling city of Los Angeles, then home to 418 Jews. Some historians feel the actual number of Jews in the West was even higher. An 1878 survey by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations - the only such census in that era - found that 230,257 Jews then lived in the United States including 21,465 in 11 western states and territories.
Several Thousand JewsĪmerica’s western regions in the 1800s were home to thousands of Jews. Here are some surprising ways Jews helped shape the American Frontier.
The Wild West isn’t usually thought of as a home to Jews, yet early Jewish Americans lived there and left their marks.
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