A traveling museum exhibit from The Alexander Levi Heritage Project

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Photo credit, mage of Rabbi Alexander with Temple Beth El Yahrzeit board: Jeremy Portje, Dubuque Telegraph Herald.

Photos below taken by photographer Larry Burrows, great-great-grandson of Alexander Levi.

About the Images

Top Row: Left three images: Grave of Alexander Levi (b.1809-d.1893); top right image: Alexander Levi's great-granddaughter, Louise Greilsheim, and her daughter-in-law, Nancy Burrows.

Bottom Row: Graves of Levi's son-in-law, James Levi and two of James Levi's sons, Eugene and Jesse.  Bottom right: The Jewish community of Dubuque gathers to pay respects to friends, family and early settlers buried in the Jewish section of Linwood Cemetery; for which the land was deeded by Alexander Levi to the City of Dubuque.

About the Yizkor Fund

Independent of this publicly funded exhibit, Temple Beth El in Dubuque has established a Yizkor Fund to make it possible to continue to honor the memories and maintain the graves of Jewish residents of Dubuque whose families are no longer alive or traceable. For more information on how you can donate to this fund, please contact levi175@gmail.com

A Personal Remembrance

Exhibit Director/Developer, Karin Pritikin, learned only recently that she had a personal, ancestral connection to Dubuque's Jewish community. Below is a picture of her Grandmother, Sadie Pritikin (nee Goldberg), at age 15, taken in 1915 at the Leo Link Photo Studios on 6th & Main, Dubuque Iowa. Sadie, who was born in Hungary and raised in Chicago, came to Dubuque as a young woman to work in the home of her cousin, Sam Koppel.