Holsman, Hyman

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Hyman Holsman Soundex Code H425

7331 N. Sheridan Road

Source: Rogers Park Directory, 1919, page 38.


Hyman Holsman was a local philanthropist and a jeweler by trade. Mr. Holsman owned a jewelry store initially at 179 W. Madison Street and then eventually at 5 S. Wabash Avenue. This address on Wabash is known as “The Jewelers Center” at the Mallers Building and is one the most famous addresses on the historic “Jeweler’s Row” in the Loop. As of 2003, “Jeweler’s Row” is now a Chicago Landmark District.

According to the encyclopedic 1924 book by Hyman Louis Meites, History of the Jews of Chicago, Temple Mizpah was actually organized in 1919 in Mr. Holsman’s home at 7331 N. Sheridan Road! The synagogue building on Morse was constructed in 1924 to accommodate the congregation of 350 families. Sixty years later in the 1970s, the then smaller congregation relocated to Skokie.

First wife, unknown. Died in insane asylum in Seattle, Washington, in 1911.

Second wife: Nellye Holsman, nee: unknown.

Son from first marriage: George Holsman

Daughters from second marriage: Hortense Hoffman nee: Hortense Holsman; Jeanne Weintraub nee: Jeanne Holsman; Betty Bloomfield, nee: Elizabeth Holsman.

Obituary from Chicago Tribune, August 29, 1934, page 12.

Remains at Memorial Chapel, 5206 N. Broadway. Funeral Thursday at 10 a.m. at Temple Mizpah, 1615 W. Morse Avenue. Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Home: 7331 N. Sheridan Road