{"id":12670,"date":"2016-03-18T14:50:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishaction.com\/?p=12670"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:50:37","slug":"the-cohn-family-baltimore-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishaction.com\/jewish-world\/history\/the-cohn-family-baltimore-maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cohn Family, Baltimore, Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Henry P. (Tzvi Pinchas) Cohn left Germany for America around 1847. In the States, Henry married his cousin Fanny, who had been living in Virginia. Today, the Cohns are seventh-generation Americans and <\/em>shomrei Torah and mitzvos.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Bettie R. Mandelbaum (nee Cohn), great-granddaughter of Henry P. (Tzvi Pinchas) Cohn<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Simcha Katz, circa 1874, father of the original Henry P. Cohn. In 1874, Henry went back to visit his father, who had remained in Germany. Henry kept a diary and wrote many letters back to his family over the course of the trip. Courtesy of Howard M. Cohn<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

My great-grandfather, Henry P. (Tzvi Pinchas) Cohn, was a Kohen. He left Germany\u00a0because they had strict laws against Jews there, one of which imposed limitations on how many Jews in a family could get married. (This is why one of Yekke minhagim<\/em> is that talleisim<\/em> are worn by both single and married men; this way, German officials weren\u2019t able to tell who was married and who wasn\u2019t.) Before he left for America, Henry received a license to perform shechitah,<\/em> since he was unsure if he would be able to obtain kosher meat in America.<\/p>\n

When Henry first came to America and settled in Richmond, Virginia, he was a peddler. He married his cousin Fanny and in the middle of the Civil War, the couple moved to Baltimore. I assume they moved because it was easier to maintain an Orthodox life in Baltimore, which had attracted a relatively large number of Orthodox Jews. It was important to have other frum<\/em> people to socialize with. Without a support system, one was likely to assimilate.<\/p>\n

In 1863, during the Civil War, Henry paid a mercenary to fight in the war for him; the going price was a thousand dollars. In 1874, Henry traveled by ship back to Germany to visit his father, Simcha Katz (my great-grandfather changed the name to Cohn in America). The trip took about three weeks. On the ship he kept a diary in German and wrote letters to his family. I have the diary and the letters, which have been translated into English.<\/p>\n

When he returned to Baltimore, he opened a small department store called The Favorite, which was closed on Shabbos. Anybody in Baltimore who wanted to keep Shabbos could get a job working there. The store would open on Motzaei<\/em> Shabbos<\/em> with lines of loyal customers waiting to enter.<\/p>\n

While living in Richmond and in Baltimore, my great-grandfather, Henry P., wrote she\u2019eilos<\/em> to Rav Shmuel Salant in Yerushalayim and received written teshuvos<\/em>, several of which we still have. The Cohns always stressed the importance of being close to a rav.<\/em><\/p>\n

How did my great-grandparents stay frum<\/em> in America, and not succumb to assimilation despite all of the challenges? They had backbones made of iron rods. The Torah was their guide and that was it; there was no
\nother way. That\u2019s how I was brought up. My mother told me that we were not to wear red because of a cherem <\/em>of the Chasam Sofer. And that was final\u00f3the Cohns don\u2019t wear red.<\/p>\n

When I was a child, because most store-bought foods had no\u00a0hashgachah<\/em>,\u00a0at home we wouldn\u2019t eat anything [commercially processed]. We did everything ourselves, including grinding our own coffee beans. I didn\u2019t know what candy was growing up because we couldn\u2019t buy anything from the store. My family was stringent about the male adults only consuming cholov Yisrael.<\/em> My mother would drive my grandfather Jacob\u00a0to a farm every week and they would pasteurize the milk themselves and make cottage cheese. My grandparents, who lived around the corner from us when we were growing up, were known in Baltimore as the \u201cFruma Cohns.\u201d<\/em> As a little girl I used to watch my grandmother Rena\u00a0kasher<\/em>\u00a0the chickens. Their [spiritual] strength and commitment to [Judaism] were passed down through the generations.<\/p>\n

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By Zipora Blaivas, daughter of Bettie Mandelbaum<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A young Jacob Cohn, son of the original Henry P. Cohn. One of nine children, he was one of the few to marry, as there was a dearth of frum Jews in the US at the time. Courtesy of Howard M. Cohn<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

My great-grandfather, Jacob Cohn, was one of nine children; Only three of those children ended up getting\u00a0married, as there were a limited number of frum<\/em> Jews to marry in America. They were proud German Jews whose dedication to Yiddishket<\/em> precluded them from considering marrying out of the religion. When Jacob was in his upper twenties, he contracted a deadly illness. He made a neder<\/em> that if Hashem healed him, he would get married and try to have a family. Baruch Hashem, <\/em>Jacob recovered and married my great-grandmother, Rena (Rivka) Glass, who was also from a Jewish-German family.<\/p>\n

In 1930, when my grandfather, Henry P. (Tzvi Pinchas) (named after his grandfather, the original family patriarch) got his first job, he told his boss that because of Shabbos he would leave early on Fridays. After a couple of weeks, his boss asked him, \u201cHow long are you going to do this leaving early on Friday thing?\u201d His boss thought it was a passing phase. My grandfather answered, \u201cAs long as I\u2019m alive.\u201d Compromising on religion wasn\u2019t an option. Rumor has it that he didn\u2019t wear a yarmulke at work and because of this he didn\u2019t eat while at work. He would eat in the morning before he left and when he returned home. When my grandfather came home with his first paycheck, he put aside some of the money in a little box designated for\u00a0ma\u2019aser<\/em> and told my grandmother, \u201cThis money does not belong to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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More in this section<\/h4>\n

Unbroken Faith: American Jewish Families Who Defied the Odds\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bienenfeld Family<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Hartman Family<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Scheinerman Family<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Fertig Family<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Bruder Family<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Cohn Family<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Siegel Family<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bayla Sheva Brenner is a former senior writer in the OU Communications and Marketing Department.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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