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Blanchardville (Lafayette County)

With profits from his New Glarus general store, Russian immigrant Solomon Levitan bought a general store and operated it here. The shows Levitan as a pall bearer at Sen. Robert M. La Follette Sr.'s funeral in 1924.

Elizabeth Lev, now of Whitefish Bay, owned a small sheep farm here in the 1990s for about 10 years. She kept a kosher home, buying food in Madison, and affiliated with Madison's Temple Beth El.

All of these articles are always open to the addition of new information. Readers who have more data about, or documents or artifacts from, these communities are welcome to contact Leon Cohen at the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning at 414-963-4135 or lcohen@wsjl.org.