Knesses Israel Cemetery
Also known as Temple Beth-El Cemetery
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
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Birmingham, Alabama 35204 United StatesCoordinates: 33.52250, -86.83110 - 205-969-5913
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When Temple Beth-El split from Knesseth Israel in 1908, the congregations maintained a joint cemetery association and Chevra Kadisha society, which prepares the dead for burial. That partnership was strained when Beth-El formally joined the conservative synagogue movement in the 1940s. A lawsuit to dissolve their financial ties to the cemetery was filed, but was dropped in 1960.
The earliest graves there document a wave of Jewish immigrants who came from Eastern Europe as Jews escaped persecution in places such as the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. Since the 1950s, most burials for the Orthodox synagogue Knesseth Israel Congregation, the conservative synagogue Temple Beth-El and the Reform synagogue Temple Emanu-El have been in Jewish sections of Elmwood cemetery.
The cemetery at 320 11th Court North, south of Tuggle Elementary School and north of Parker High School, has an old-world charm about it. On the north side, it's bordered by a cobblestone wall.
When Temple Beth-El split from Knesseth Israel in 1908, the congregations maintained a joint cemetery association and Chevra Kadisha society, which prepares the dead for burial. That partnership was strained when Beth-El formally joined the conservative synagogue movement in the 1940s. A lawsuit to dissolve their financial ties to the cemetery was filed, but was dropped in 1960.
The earliest graves there document a wave of Jewish immigrants who came from Eastern Europe as Jews escaped persecution in places such as the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. Since the 1950s, most burials for the Orthodox synagogue Knesseth Israel Congregation, the conservative synagogue Temple Beth-El and the Reform synagogue Temple Emanu-El have been in Jewish sections of Elmwood cemetery.
The cemetery at 320 11th Court North, south of Tuggle Elementary School and north of Parker High School, has an old-world charm about it. On the north side, it's bordered by a cobblestone wall.
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 23863
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