(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 95

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Record book of Hebrew Ladies Aid Society of Fargo, North Dakota, for years 1919-32. Circa 350 pages of detailed minutes recording social, religious and philanthropic affairs of the Fargo Community. Much ephemeral materials laid in. * WITH: Membership-Book of local Lodge (No. 634) of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, for years 1908-29 (c. 164 membership forms with names, ages and birthplaces of male members).

Fargo, North Dakota: early 20th-century

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $750

Jews first settled in North Dakota in 1882 (seven years before Statehood) when Baron de Hirsch's Jewish Colonization Association established a Jewish settlement on the bank of the Missouri River. By the 1960s, Fargo, the state's largest city, hosted a Jewish community of 500, including Fargo Mayor Herschel Lashkowitz. See EJ, Vol. XII, col. 1221.