William Saulson was the president at the time, and S. There were some Jewish people in the neighborhoods that surrounded Beth Olem, most of whom were poorer than those in other parts of the city.Īs early as 1903, the cemetery proposed building a sewer and platting Beth Olem. In the coming decades, many would move further outside downtown to the areas around Dexter-Linwood and the North End, eventually leaving for suburbs like Southfield, West Bloomfield, and Farmington. By 1879, Shaarey Zedek joined B'nai Israel, and the congregation met at Antoine and Congress downtown. Although expanding, Detroit's Jewish population remained downtown at this time. The first mention I've found of Beth Olem was in 1876 in the Detroit Free Press as "The remains of the late Emanual Teichner were interred in the burying ground of the congregation Shaarey Zedek, of which the deceased was a member…" Model D Media reported that the first burial happened around 1868.īy the 1890s, a small chapel had been built on the premises. As time passed, Detroit expanded, and Hamtramck was incorporated as a community, which surrounded the cemetery. In the 1860s, members of Shaarey Zedek purchased the land to be used as a burial ground for Jewish Michiganders. Beth Olem Cemetary was once a long journey outside the Detroit city limits, surrounded by farm fields.
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