Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati

Covedale Elementary School kids featured JCGC in their Covedale History Day
Boy Scouts help JCGC by marking graves
Boy Scout’s honor Jewish veterans

Last year, we began marking veterans’ graves in the Walnut Hills Cemetery and the Montgomery Cemetery, as part of our recognition project, led by Boy Scout Ethan Zied. To support this amazing and important project to honor our veterans, click here.

This year, volunteers from The Valley Temple and two family groups, helped mark graves and put out flags for Memorial Day. Contact us for information on helping with this project and be sure to subscribe to our quarterly e-newsletter to learn more about other projects and community engagement initiatives.

Work is moving along at the Kneseth Israel Cemetery, where the landscaping has been completed. Plans for a rededication of the cemetery are shaping up, while additional work continues to restore the historic columns at the entrance to the cemetery. Stay tuned for more information on the rededication and on our 200th Anniversary, celebrating the founding of the Chestnut Street Cemetery, the oldest Jewish cemetery west of the Alleghenies.

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Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati
2 weeks ago
#DidYouKnow that in 1848, after his neighbors told him that they did not want a Jewish neighbor, Charles Kahn bought land in Clifton and sold it to Ahabeth Achim to found the first Jewish cemetery in the Clifton area? Kahn told his neighbors that if they did not want to live in the same community as a living Jew, they could not object to a dead one.

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Learn more about Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati from these #DidYouKnow facts provided by our Workum Intern, Brooke:

#DidYouKnow...

...that there are 25 Jewish cemeteries in Cincinnati?

...that Golf Manor has 4 cemeteries?

...that you can reserve a grave before you pass?

...that in Jewish tradition, it is customary to put rocks on your loved ones' graves instead of flowers?

...that Chestnut Street Cemetery is going to turn 200 years old in 2021?

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#DidYouKnow that we are hosting two Workum Interns this summer through JVS Career Services? Brooke Goldwasser and Sam Ruskin are helping organize our archival materials to better support families working on genealogical research. They hope to build professional skills this summer, learn about genealogical research and the archival process, and understand how Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati supports our community. Brooke is a student at Rutgers University and Sam is coming to us from The Ohio State University.

Started in 1917 as the first organized scholarship fund in Cincinnati, the Workum Fund now supports Cincinnati college students as they gain work experience in local Jewish organizations. You can learn more about the history of the Workum Fund here: www.workum.org/history.htm Many Workum family members and founders of the fund are buried in our cemeteries. #jewishcemeteries ... See MoreSee Less
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