Jewish Cemetery Project Preserves Tradition

July 26, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: WTHR

Wire Service: AP

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=10789848

A three-year project to create an online database of Indianapolis' Jewish cemeteries has yielded a trove of new information about the city's Jewish past, including a record of poorer ethnic immigrant groups whose synagogue was known simply as "the peddler's congregation."

Gloria Green, an office manager in a commercial real estate business, began collecting data after learning from a genealogy expert that there was no information readily available about people buried in Indianapolis' Kelly Street cemeteries.

That, she said, went against the Jewish respect for tradition, in this case, honoring the dead.