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History. In 1853, the first and oldest Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles was established in Chavez Ravine, near the present-day Dodger Stadium. [1] In 1901, Kaspare Cohn donated 30 acres (12.1 ha) of land for the establishment of this cemetery. [1] The bodies interred at Chavez Ravine were moved to East Los Angeles's Home of Peace Memorial Park ...
By the 1960s, the Home of Peace cemetery had almost 10,000 graves and its mausoleum had over 6,000 crypts, housed in both the original mausoleum and a second, modern style building added to the grounds. But Home of Peace, along with the other Jewish cemeteries in East Los Angeles, also faced new financial pressures in the postwar era.
Home of Peace is the successor to the first Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles. Orginally founded as the cemetery of the Hebrew Benevolent Society in 1855 in Chavez Ravine, it was moved to it current location in 1902. The remains of the 360 Jews buried in the old cemetery were moved between 1902 and 1910.
In 1853, the first and oldest Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles was established in Chavez Ravine, near the present-day Dodger Stadium. In 1901, Kaspare Cohn donated 30 acres (12.1 ha) of land for the establishment of this cemetery. The bodies interred at Chavez Ravine were moved to East Los Angeles's Home of Peace Memorial Park between 1902 and 1910.
Within months of its founding, the HBS purchased three acres of land in Chavez Ravine north of downtown and established Los Angeles' first Jewish cemetery. Three additional acres were gifted by the Los Angeles City Council in 1868. The HBS’ remaining funds were devoted to providing proper Jewish burials to impoverished Jews and those without ...
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In 1910 the bodies were moved to the Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles. [28] The oldest congregation in Los Angeles started in 1862, a Reform denomination, it is the present-day Wilshire Boulevard Temple congregation.
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