What's New? "Jewish Pioneers, temple due honors," appeared in the November 12, 1982, Tucson Citizen. It gives snapshots of the lives of pioneer Jews Samuel and Philip Drachman, Albert Steinfeld, Isodore Gotthelf, and Sam Mansfeld. [item entered January 2003] How did Jewish pioneers living in Tucson in the 19th century maintain rituals? Read this short note from George Hand's diary for March 16, 1877. [item entered January 2003] Read "Philip Drachman -- 1867 A Legislator's Devotion: 200 Horse Miles to Work" from the 1967 Tucson Daily Citizen [item entered January 2003] Read about two prominent Tucson businessmen, Leo and Alfred Goldschmidt. [item entered December 2002] View a slideshow of forty images from the Archive's collections. [item entered November 2002] From the UA Library's Special Collections: an image of the original 1867 petition signed by P. Drachman requesting that the Pima County Board of Supervisors approve a public school in the town of Tucson." Added to the page featuring Philip and Samuel Drachman [item entered November 2002] Ms. Ann Tartaul of La Jolla, CA, shared an artifact from her personal collections with us. It is a page from a 1929 Tucson Daily Citizen that contained two articles: "Albert Steinfeld, Tucson's Merchant Prince, Arrived Here 57 Years Ago, When City Had Only 1200 Population," and "Two Jacobs Brothers, Pioneer Merchants, Were First Tucson Bankers." Read these two articles. [item entered October 2002] An online version of "The Drachman's of Arizona" written by Dr. Floyd S. Fierman and published in 1964 in the journal, American Jewish Archives. Rabbi Fierman's article tells of the experience of Jewish pioneers Samuel and Philip Drachman who came west in the 1850s and 1860s. Samuel and his brother Philip, his two brothers-in-law Hyman Goldberg and Sam Katzenstein, and Hyman's brother Isaac, were all closely identified with the growth of the Arizona Territory. Read the article in the Arizona Pioneers section of the Archives website [item entered August 2002] Two new links have been added to the websites that you will find quite interesting. A new website, created in conjunction with the traveling exhibition Stories Untold: Jewish Pioneer Women, 1865-1915. "The exhibition consists of a nine mixed media works on large canvases by contemporary Santa Fe artist Andrea Kalinowski. The stories of Jewish pioneer women's lives on the American Western frontier are told in works that combine digital technology and traditional quilt designs with texts and photographs." [item entered August 2002] Goldberg, Robert Alan. 1995. Chapter One: Legacy, In Barry Goldwater retrieved online at WashingtonPost.com August 22, 2002 [item entered August 2002] A few years ago we began looking at more contemporary stories. The first effort in this area is found in the Wernick Family Remembrance, which has been available as a discrete website for a few years now. [item entered August 2002] We would welcome hearing from other Jewish families in the Tucson area who would like to explore telling their family's story on the Southwest Jewish Archives website. Send an email if you are interested to Stuart Glogoff