Hyman Mendel

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Hyman Mendel was one of many successful Jewish immigrants in Atlanta. Mendel became the city's biggest dry-goods wholesaler by the turn of the twentieth century.

Courtesy of William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Community Archives for Southern Jewish History.

Hyman Mendel

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