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Within 25 years, the population of Jews grew to 1,200. From the late 1800s and well into the 1950s, the vast majority of Jews lived in the inner city neighborhoods of Glenville, Kinsman, and Hough. In 1920, the Jewish population grew up to 90,000. By the 1940s, many Jews lived in Glenville, Kinsman, Hough, and the then newly built Shaker ...
The history of Jews in Ohio dates back to 1817, when Joseph Jonas, a pioneer, came from England and made his home in Cincinnati.He drew after him a number of English Jews, who held Orthodox-style divine service for the first time in Ohio in 1819, and, as the community grew, organized themselves in 1824 into the first Jewish congregation of the Ohio Valley, the B'ne Israel.
Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati. Coordinates: 39°06′26″N 84°31′17″W. The Old Jewish Cemetery (also known as the Chestnut Street Cemetery and Bene Israel Burying Ground) in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the oldest Jewish cemetery west of the Allegheny Mountains. [1] Opened in 1821, it is located just northwest of Downtown Cincinnati in the ...
The Bellefaire Orphanage [1] was a Jewish orphanage in Cleveland Ohio [2] founded in 1868 as an orphanage for children who lost their parents in the Civil War, making it one of the oldest orphanages in the US. The orphanage was established by the Midwest division of B'nai B'rith, an international Jewish social service organization.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest of people responsible for damaging gravestones at two Jewish cemeteries on Cincinnati's West Side. The ...
United Jewish Cemetery [clarification needed] is a Reform Jewish cemetery, located at 3400 Montgomery Road in the Evanston neighborhood, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The cemetery was opened by members of Bene Israel and B'nai Jeshurum congregations in 1862. The first burial was Issac Fredrick on February 18, 1850, when ground was first consecrated.
Map of Cincinnati neighborhoods. Cincinnati consists of fifty-two neighborhoods. Many of these neighborhoods were once villages that have been annexed by the City of Cincinnati. The most important of them retain their former names, such as Walnut Hills and Mount Auburn. [1]
Y. Yavneh Day School (Cincinnati, Ohio) Categories: Ethnic groups in Cincinnati. Jews and Judaism in Ohio. Jews and Judaism in the United States by city. Religion in Cincinnati. People from Cincinnati. CatAutoTOC generates no TOC.