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Michigan's Oldest Jewish Cemetery Still in Existence
This half-acre cemetery, dedicated on January 1851, was first known as “The Champlain Street Cemetery of Temple Beth El,” before Champlain was renamed Lafayette.
This half-acre cemetery, dedicated on January 1851, was first known as “The Champlain Street Cemetery of Temple Beth El,” before Champlain was renamed Lafayette.
Near this site, in 1850, a small group of German-Jewish immigrants gathered at the home of Isaac and Sarah Cozens and formed the Bet El Society. Here Marcus Cohen, a layman, conducted the first Jewish religious service in Detroit.
David Emil Henieman, born in Detroit on October 17, 1865, was the son of Emil and Fanny Butzel Heineman, prominent Jewish Detroiters who ran a clothing store within Detroit’s Russell House on Campus Martius, and were very involved in the community.
