Community

Historical Highlights of Saint John Jewish Community

· 1858 – Arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon and Alice Hart from England. Mr. Hart was a cigar maker

· 1859 – Arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Green

· 1871 – Arrival of Abraham & Israel Isaacs

· 1873- Purchase of land for Green-Hart Cemetery

· 1892 - Arrival of first Yiddish – speaking immigrants

· 1892-1928 – Arrival of most Eastern European immigrants

· 1898 – Dedication of first synagogue, the Ahavith Achim Synagogue on Carleton Street

· 1899 – Founding of Daughters of Israel by Alice Hart with mandate to help needy women and children, many of them immigrants

· 1906 – Dedication of Hazen Avenue Synagogue

· 1919 – Dedication of Shaarei Zedek Synagogue – a merger of the two earlier congregations in this former Calvin Presbyterian church built in 1865

· 1920’s – 1960’s – “Golden Years” for the Jewish Community

· 1977 – Election of Samuel Davis, as Saint John’s only Jewish Mayor

· 1984 – “Koom Ahaim Reunion”

· 1986 – Opening of Saint John Jewish Historical Museum

· 2008 – 150^th anniversary of founding of Saint John Jewish Community

· 2011 – 25^th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Saint John Jewish Historical Museum