Kahn, Sarah
Person
Biography
Sarah Kahn sewed a whimple for her son Yaacov Ben Naftali Kahn in Boppard, Germany. Her husband was Naphtali Ben Moshe. The family changed the last name to Kerr when they immigrated to New York.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Kern Family Tefillin Bag and Wimpel
Collection
Identifier: B189
Abstract
Sarah Kahn made a traditional wimpel--from the swaddling cloths of Yaakov Ben Naftali Kahn--in Boppard, Germany, in 1899. When the Kahn family came to America in 1938 they changed their name to Kern. In 1940, Charles Kern, Yaakov's brother, married Edith Stern in New York City and the couple moved to Denver, Colorado. Edith Stern was born in Germany in 1914 and emigrated to the United States in 1935. She died in Denver in 2016 at the age of 101.
Dates:
1895 - 1930