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Jewish Montanans

Montana has a rich history of Jewish pioneers, homesteaders, activists, workers, and community-builders. Click a picture to go to their biography.

Learn more about one of the fiercest delegates to the 1972 Constitutional Convention, a defender of bridges, and a life-long Jewish Montanan.

Bandmann was a Shakespearean actor with a colorful personal life. Later in his life, he would introduce McIntosh apples to Montana.

Fanney Neyman Litvin began life in Butte, MT before going on to be the first woman lawyer at the Federal Communications Commission.

Navon and tweother firefighters perished in the tragic Mann Gulch Fire in 1949. Their deaths changed firefighting forever.

Levy's life defied easy categorization but he was less miner and more professional gambler.

Samuel and Sadye Eicoff were successful business owners in Lewistown, MT.

Cohen served in the Confederate army but later deserted. Cohen is buried in the Jewish Home of Peace cemetery.

Marks was a Jewish Confederate who remained committed to the veterans after the war.

Brinig was a novelist who wrote about a variety of American experiences, including queer and working-class experience.