<<Endel Family>> photo album.

Auction 98 | Thursday, June 16th, 2022 at 1:00pm

Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

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Lot 74

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).

<<Endel Family>> photo album.

Contains 57 photographs of men, women, children, and babies of the extended Endel family. The identities of many are written on the reverse, occasionally with an inscription to a relative. The substantially hefty album has an elaborate white celluloid cover, gilt edges, and a red velvet backing. <<Moses Endel funerary card>> included with the album.

Gainesville, FL: 1880s and 1890s

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

The patriarch of the family, Moses Endel (1829-92), was a Jewish immigrant from Russia, who settled in Richmond, VA where he married Fanny Epstein (d. 1862). Their children were Marcus, and Yetta. During the Civil War Moses’s Confederate service was in Company D, Virginia 1st Reserve Infantry. After the war he remarried, to Matilda, originally of Scotland, and they moved first to Charleston and then to Gainesville. An article in the Orlando Sentinel (April 29, 1972) notes that the Endels were literally, the pioneering Jews of Gainesville, as its small Jewish community developed only after the Endels moved there, the city’s first Jewish family. Indeed they acquired a Torah Scroll in Richmond and brought it with them to Gainsville. <<Provenance:>> The E. Norman Flayderman Collection. <<Most important to Florida Jewish history. >>