Book Launch: Most Fortunate Unfortunates

On October 25th, 2023, author Marlene Trestman launched her newest work, "Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans" with an event and lecture at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience. The book is the first comprehensive history of America’s first purpose-built Jewish orphanage, founded in 1855 in the aftermath of a yellow fever epidemic. By the time the Jewish Orphans’ Home closed in 1946, it had sheltered more than sixteen hundred parentless children and two dozen widows from New Orleans and other areas of Louisiana and the mid-South. To learn more about Marlene's work, visit marlenetrestma....