Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies - Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria in 1829 and came to the US in 1847. He is perhaps best known for the blue jeans he
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Levi Strauss Museum. The Levi Strauss Museum in Buttenheim, a market in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg, was opened in 2000 in the house where Levi Strauss, the inventor of jeans,
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