page_title: Levi Strauss
section_title: Family background
hierarchical_section_title: Levi Strauss / Family background
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Buttenheim, Bayern, das Levi-Strauss-Haus English: Buttenheim, Germany, Levi-Strauss-house Italiano: La casa natale di Levi Strauss, oggi un museo, a Buttenheim in Baviera von Clemensfranz ( nicht von mir, ich habe es nur neu hochgeladen) fotografiert am 25.07.2005
context_page_description: Levi Strauss was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.
context_section_description: Levi Strauss was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Buttenheim on February 26, 1829, in the Franconia region of the Kingdom of Bavaria in the German Confederation. He was the son of Hirsch Strauss and his second wife Rebecca Strauss (née Haas). At age 18, Strauss travelled with his mother and two sisters to the United States to join his brothers Jonas and Louis, who had begun a wholesale dry goods business in New York City called J. Strauss Brother & Co.
caption: Birthplace of Levi Strauss
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