Learn how to uncover your Catholic family history in this free virtual presentation, featuring HNOC family historian and genealogist Jari C. Honora. A Certified Genealogist®, Honora recently made international news as the first historian to uncover the Creole heritage of Pope Leo XIV. Whether you are just getting started or need help breaking through “brick …
In this novel program created for the MSJE, Jari Honora and Marlene Trestman will explore several remarkable institutions that once occupied neighboring blocks along St. Charles Avenue from the 1880s through the 1940s: the Home for Destitute Orphan Boys, the Jewish Orphans’ Home, and, to offer rigorous college and secondary education to Black youth, New …
Henri Bendel—America’s first great couture importer and ladies’ dress merchant—was not French despite his name. The son of Prussian and Austrian Jews was born and raised in South Louisiana and rose to national fame as a businessman and an arbiter of style, creating an iconic brand that ran for 123 years. Louisiana-born journalist Tim Allis, …
