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Wyatt and Josephine Earp grave at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park. Emanu-El Hart (or the "Old Jewish Cemetery") was built in 1847 at Gough Street and Vallejo Street in San Francisco; by 1860 the graves were relocated to an area that is now Mission Dolores Park and this served as a cemetery for both the Congregation Emanu-El and the Congregation Sherith Israel.
The cemetery contains the Emanu-El Mausoleum, owned by and serving the Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. [3] It is one of four Jewish cemeteries near the city of San Francisco and it shares an adjacent space next to the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park (also a Jewish cemetery, and also founded in 1889). [4]
The site's outdoor Garden Mausoleum was completed in 1950, and a Holocaust memorial was completed and dedicated in 1974. [2]: 78 Congregation Beth Israel-Judea sold the cemetery to Congregations Emanu-El and Sherith Israel in July 2004, merging it with the neighboring Hills of Eternity and Home of Peace cemeteries. [8]
Inside, the Belle Chapel presents a permanent memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. [10] The sculpture inside the chapel was designed by Dr Eric May and donated by Nicolai Joffe. [10] Isaiah Zeldin served as one of its rabbis from 1958 until 1964, when he left to found Stephen S. Wise Temple in Bel Air in 1964.
The Bernard Museum of Judaica, formally the Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica, is part of Temple Emanu-El on Manhattan's Upper East Side.Their museum hosts temporary exhibits on various aspects of Jewish life, faith, and culture.
Emanu-El was therefore founded as the congregation of the German Jews and Sherith Israel as the congregation of the Polish Jews. [ 13 ] Congregation B'nai Israel (Sacramento, California) is the oldest congregation in Sacramento, California , tracing its history back to September 2, 1852, [ 14 ] making it the first synagogue owned by a ...
Emanu-El merged with New York's Temple Beth-El on April 11, 1927; they are considered co-equal parents of the current Emanu-El. The new synagogue was built in 1928 to 1930. By the 1930s, Emanu-El began to absorb large numbers of Jews whose families had arrived in poverty from Eastern Europe and brought with them their Yiddish language and ...
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