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The information on this page was accurate as of August 31, 2005 (before Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana). We will endeavor to update this page as soon as conditions permit and information comes to us. The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, deeply saddened in the aftermath of Katrina, prays for the safety of all in Louisiana. [September 5, 2005]
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
Jewish Genealogical Society of New Orleans
Contact information at: http://iajgs.org/members/members.html
Louisiana Jewish Historical Society
Temple Sinai
6227 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
Louisiana State Archives has photo showing antebellum Jewish graves. "Because of religious beliefs, the dead were buried below ground in Jewish cemeteries, rather than as usual in New Orleans crypts or tombs." PHOTOS: http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/education/jew1.htm
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience
PO Box 16528
Jackson, MS 39236-0528, (601) 362-6357
Email:
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http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/97-2.htm - link no longer available "Decline in an Age of Expansion: Disappearing Jewish Communities in the Era of Mass Migration" by Lee Shai Weissbach mentions Louisiana. [January 2001]
SYNAGOGUES IN LOUISIANA:
http://jewish.com/page.php?do=page&cat_id=147 [2000]
CIVIL WAR GRAVES:
Several Civil War veterans are buried in Shreveport cemeteries. AJA . American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488. 513-221-1875 (tel); 513-221-7812 (fax). E-mail:
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has list of Jewish soldiers killed during the Civil War and buried in Chattanooga, TN; Richmond, VA; Elmira, NY; Andersonville, GA; and Louisiana compiled by Melvin Young. Chattanooga, Tennessee July 1987. Miscellaneous file. |
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