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“History of B’nai Jacob Cemetery”

Collection
Synagogue Documentation Project Records (MSS 317)
Source
Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives at the Heinz History Center
Date
January 29, 1979

Congregation B’nai Jacob in East Liverpool dedicated a synagogue in 1916 and acquired land in Lisbon, Ohio, for a cemetery about 1924. The congregation had previously buried members in a Jewish cemetery in nearby Steubenville, Ohio.

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