The company was founded by Karl Straus born in 1845 who was a Jewish German immigrant. Straus arrived in Philadelphia in 1867 and he began a wholesale liquor business. In 1888 he became a tobacco merchant opening his own company named K. Straus & Co. Straus died in 1920 leaving the business to his nephew Adolf Loeb who incorporated the company in 1922.
Shemu'el ibn 'Azariah.; Rabbah bar Bar Ḥana,; Napoleon; Shabbethai Tzevi,; Hezekiah ben David da Silva,; Nathan,; Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Correspondence.
Muḥammad,; Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd,; Mustafa Sıdkı, -1769, former owner.; Muḥammad Nāfiʻ, active 1858, former owner.; Būṣīrī, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd, 1213?-1296?. Burdah.
Corporate Name:
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
Date:
1737
Language:
Arabic
Publisher:
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], A.H. 1150 (1737)
Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, Caliph of Egypt, 985-approximately 1021.; Muqtaná, Bahāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, active 1015-1020.; Ḥamzah ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, active 1015-1020.