The Faith of Far Away Moses: Yom Kippur, 1893
Posted by: Stephen Winick
Note: This is part of a series of posts about Far Away Moses, a fascinating celebrity of the 19th century, who served as the model for one of the keystone heads on the Thomas Jefferson Building. Moses, a Sephardic Jew from Constantinople, knew some of the most prominent Americans of his era, including Theodore Roosevelt …
Posted in: Far-Away Moses, Jewish American History, Jewish Americans, Religion, Yom Kippur