Amanuensis Monday: St. Louis Synagogue Confirmation Classes of 1926

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

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Below I transcribe a list of Confirmation classes from St. Louis area synagogues in 1926, found in the May 14, 1926 issue of The Modern View.  

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5686 – St. Louis Confirmants – Shevuos – 1926

B’NAI EL CONGREGATION
CONFIRMATION CLASS

FEIGENBAUM, Joseph D.
1262 Isadora Ave., St. Louis Co.
MORRIS, Sidney
4119a Shaw Ave.
SAGER, Harry
733 Heman Ave., University City.
FERMAN, Annetta
2620 Margaret Ave., Maplewood, Mo.
GOLDSTEIN, Ruth
719a Westgate, University City
FUDEMBERG, Sylvia
3751 South Jefferson Ave.
HASTERLIK, Elise K.
3024 Glasgow Place
NEWMARK, Melvin
4906 Aldine Place
FISCHER, Morris
7209 South Broadway
BLATH, Sigma F.
5740 Kingsbury Place
BENSINGER, Murial
4216 Lafayette Ave.
MAYER, Joe
3311 Osage
HERSKOWITZ, Edward W.
1286a Goodfellow Ave.
TEMERLIN, Jeanette
3645 McRee Avenue
NADLER, Harry T.
2236 Tower Grove Ave.
ECKER, Lucille S.
3236 Walter Ave., Maplewood, Mo.
JOSEPH, Joe
4158a Lafayette Ave.
KAHN, Leona
8770 Manchester Rd., Brentwood
KORACH, Jeannette
6301 Clemons Avenue
LEVY, Lillian
804 Eastgate
PETER, Anna R.
3729 Hydraulic Ave.
SCHIFFMAN, Adeline
4123 Lafayette Ave.
KLEIN, Bernice B.
3205 Meramec Street

SHAARE EMETH
CONFIRMATION CLASS

ABERSON, Leo
1217 Blackstone Ave.
BAUMAN, Robert
775 Belt Ave.
BLUMBERG, Louis
2208 Franklin Ave.
BROWN, Margaret
227 Westgate Ave.
EDMONDS, Henry
4563 Forest Park Blvd.
GOGEL, Edith
5788 Westminster Place
JACOBSON, Fannie
3527 Cass Ave.
JACOBSON, Nettie
445 Wilmington Ave.
KORNBLUM, Genevieve
754 Leland Ave.
LANDAU, Morris
3623 Commonwealth, Maplewood
MAYER, Carleen
739 Westgate Ave.
MARCUS, Blanche
5789 Westminster Place
NUSSBAUM, Robert
6965 Alamo Ave.
SHERMAN, Irvin
3611 Wyoming Ave.
SCHARFF, Arthur
5771 Waterman Ave.
WITT, Myron
4905 Argyle Place
WOLFF, Morris
5644a Etzel Ave.
YAWITZ, Corinne
5579 Waterman Ave.
LASERSOHN, Robert
900 DeMun Ave.
PERES, Clarice
5537 Pershing Ave.
SALE, Francis
5632 Cabanne Ave.
GREENFIELD, Milton
5139 Westminster Place
HIRSCH, Markus
5601 Waterman Ave.
POLLOCK, Ida
5223 Enright Ave.
LANDAU, Homer
5277 Waterman Ave.

1926 CONFIRMATION CLASS
OF TEMPLE ISRAEL

BAUM, A.W.
5906 Plymouth
BRASCH, Norvell
4464 Washington
EPSTEIN, Leon
5656 Waterman
FRIEDMAN, Harry
5755 McPherson
GROLLNEK, Julian
5725 De Giverville
MEYER, Richard
5917 Washington
MOSKOVITS, Stanley
7069 Delmar
SHAPIRO, Jacob
4020a DeTonty
SINGER, James
5744 Theodosia
RICHMAN, Stanley
6227 Northwood
OLIAN, Ralph
5656 Waterman
BERLINER, Sophie
5656 Cote Brilliante
FORCHEIMER, Jacquelyne
5657 Waterman
GILLERMAN, Gertrude
5168 Raymond
GOSSMAN, Leah
6952 Waterman
GRAM, Myra
22 Cornell Ave.
HORWITZ, Sylvia
5700 Etzel
JACOBS, Libbie
6193 Westminster
KOHNER, Melba
6124 Westminster
KOPLAR, Estelle
1241 Hamilton
LANDAU, Evelyn
5752 Westminster
NATHAN, Clara
5037 Waterman
ROCKLING, Lucille
4137 Manchester
ROSENFELD, Lucille
5728 Westminster
ROSENHEIM, Ellen
4611 McPherson
ROSENTHAL, Ruth
5786 Westminster
SHMOOKLER, Eleanor
3234 Audubon (E. St. Louis)
STEINER, Ruth
5746 Kingsbury
THALER, Dorothy
5101 Delmar
WOLFORT, Erma Louise
6145 McPherson
SORKIN, Mary
1374 Shawmut
HORWITZ, Regina
5768 Kingsbury

UNITED HEBREW CONGREGATION
CONFIRMATION CLASS

ALBERT, Harry
5790 Kingsbury Blvd.
APPELMAN, Beulah
6320 Northwood Ave.
BRANDT, Irvin
2945 Dayton St.
BRANDT, Isabel
5467 Delmar Blvd.
COHEN, Anna
5249 Cabanne Ave.
COHEN, Louise
6678 Washington Ave.
FADEM, Julius
4962 Labadie Ave.
FAINSOD, Harriet
5193 Enright Ave.
FERER, Ruth
6665 Washington Ave.
FINE, Pauline
5932 Ridge Ave.
FIXEL, Ruth
6274 Cates Ave.
FIXMAN, Clarabelle
4009 Evans Ave.
FRANKEL, Frances
704 Leland Ave.
FRELICH, Lillian
808 Washington Ave.
GARFINKEL, Paul
7007 Pershing Ave.
GASTING, Paul
5477 St. Louis Ave.
GLICKSBERG, Frances
6627a University Drive
GOLDSTEIN, Leonard
1150 Hamilton Ave.
GROSSMAN, Edwin
5389 Pershing Ave.
HIRSHFIELD, Ben
5445a Easton Ave.
KOPOLOW, Gertrude
6274 Cates Ave.
KUSMER, Lucille
5233 Garfield Ave.
LEONARD, Paula May
5732 McPherson Ave.
MENDLE, Milton
7029 Westmoreland
PRICE, Cecila
5795 Waterman Ave.
PRIWER, Esther
5062 Maple Ave.
REINFELD, Marvin
5764 Westminster Place
ROSEN, Melvin
5593 Waterman Ave.
ROSENFELD, Stanley
6963 Waterman Ave.
SEGELBOHM, Beulah
5860 DeGiverville Ave.
SERKES, Charlotte
1347 Blackstone Ave.
SHANKEN, Leah
740 Eastgate Ave.
SILVERSTEIN, Alice
7280 Forsythe Blvd.
SOLOMON, Rosalie
5126 Waterman Ave.
STEINBERG, Edna
5134 Cates Ave.
SUSMAN, Bernice
7200 Westmoreland Ave.
TYNER, Rosetta
5584 Page Ave.
WISE, Milton
6429 Cates Ave.
WOLFF, Albert
5350a Wells Ave.
WOLFF, Frances
418 Clara Ave.
WALKOWITZ, Maury
1171 Hamilton Ave.
YAWITZ, Paula
19 Columbia
ZIMMERMAN, Cecilia
4327 DeTonty St.

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Notes:

1. Here's a photograph of the B'nai El class, which I have shared previously. My grandfather has the thin white rectangle outline in the lower right. Somewhere else in the photograph is his first cousin, Sylvia Fudemberg. Melvin was 13 in the photograph. He would turn 14 in August of 1926. Sylvia had just turned 14 in April. 10th grade, when the youth are 15 or 16,  is a more common age for confirmation ceremonies today.