Carolyn Gray LeMaster
Ms. LeMaster passed away 18 Nov. 2013. She was not a family member but she was an author of a book on the Jews of Arkansas in which she described accomplishments of many of our ancestors. Her book, A Corner of the Tapestry: a history of the Jewish experience in Arkansas, 1820s-1990s was published in 1994 in Fayetteville by University of Arkansas Press.
Most of the individuals she discussed were men; she wrote about business, political, cultural, entertainment accomplishents which weren’t widely open to women at when our ‘names’ made their names. I remember very few of the women in the family had jobs outside the home. Among the names (in our family tree) whose lives are mentioned in the book are:
- Camden
- Little Rock
- Joseph F. “Bompa” Block (1860-1953) (link)
- Lewis Solomon Block, Sr. (1898-1983) (link)
- Raymond Emile Block, Sr.(1892-1968) (link)
- Samuel Alexander Block (1893-1981) (link)
- Lewis Solomon Block, Jr. (1926-1983) (link)
- Mark Joseph Block (1918-1968) (link)
- E.G. Levy, Sr. (1875-1937) (link)
- Elizabeth Pfeifer (Mrs. EG Levy, Jr.) (1911-1989) (link)
- Lazarus Lynton Scharff (1897-1985) (link)
- Pine Bluff
- Helene Eisenkramer Block (Mrs. Raymond Emile Block) (1898-1973) (link)
- John Bloom (1832-1883) and Fannie Bloom (1833-1879) (link)
- Max Eisenkramer and Irene “Rena” (Strauss) Eisenkramer (link)
- Isaac Altschul (1825 – 1898) (link)
- Emanuel Buckingham “Buck” Bloom (1865-1938) (link)
- Simon Bloom (1861-1931) and Sophia (Rhine) Bloom (1869-?) (link)
- Sol N. Bloom (1892-?) (link)
- Dr. Alvin Strauss, Sr. (1890 – 1955) (link)
- Mrs. Tracye (Altschul) Strauss, Sr. (1893 – 1961) (link)
- Dr. Alvin Strauss, Jr. (link)
My copy came of this book from the Ohavay Zion Synagogue in Lexington, Ky.
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