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The cemetery was founded by Russian immigrants in 1893 in order to provide access to Jewish burial no matter one's financial means. [1] [2] These immigrants founded the Chesed Shel Emeth Society in order to bury their deceased after the immigrants found rituals and traditions of the local Orthodox synagogues unfamiliar. [3]
New Mount Sinai Cemetery is a 52-acre (21 ha) cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Its first burial was in 1853, and its rural cemetery landscape design was laid out in 1907. [ 2 ] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [ 1 ]
Today's Jewish population in the St. Louis area exceeds 60,000 in a metropolitan population of about 3,000,000 people. [6] St. Louis County, MO holds nearly all of Missouri's Jewish community. 7% of St. Louis County's population is Jewish. Synagogues and community organizations including The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute are active in St. Louis.
B'nai Amoona and the Saul Mirowitz Jewish Day School [formerly the Solomon Schechter Day School] are housed on the same campus. B'nai Amoona is the only Conservative synagogue in St. Louis that maintains its own cemetery, located in University City, Missouri. The congregation has approximately 800 families including interfaith couples. [1]
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Lemay, St. Louis County. Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis; Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, University City; Cold Water Cemetery, Florissant in St. Louis; NRHP-listed
At the time, there were approximately 600 to 700 Jewish people living in St. Louis, of which about 150 to 200 were members of United Hebrew Congregation. [7] In 1880, United Hebrew Congregation's moved the dead bodies buried at its original burial ground at Jefferson Avenue and Gratiot Street to a new cemetery at Mount Olive near Clayton. [10]
South Jersey Holocaust memorial, Alliance cemetery (Norma) [26] Camden County Holocaust Memorial (Cherry Hill) dedicated June 7, 1981Liberation, Liberty State Park (Jersey City)
Another early Jewish settler was Cap. Samuel Noah, the first Jewish graduate of West Point, who taught school at Mount Pulaski, Illinois in the late 1840s. As of 2013, Illinois has a Jewish population of 297,935. [1] Approximately three-fourths of them live in Chicago. Peoria and Quincy have the second- and third-largest Jewish communities.