Philadelphia Area Jewish Genealogical Resource Directory

CONTENTS

1) PA – Phila. Area Jewish Cemeteries

a)     Adath Jeshurun

b)     Ahavas Achim

c)      B’nai Jacob (B’nai Israel)

d)     Chevra Bikur Cholim

e)     Har Jehuda

f)       Har Nebo

g)     Har Zion

h)     Haym Solomon

i)       King David (Evergreen)

j)       Congregation Mercy & Truth (Hased Shel Emeth)

k)      Montefiore

l)       Mount Carmel (Krakauer Beth Elohim)

m)   Mount Jacob

n)     Mount Lebanon

o)     Mount Sharon

p)     Mount Sinai

q)     Ohev Shalom (B’nai Aaron/B’nai Israel/Brookhaven)

r)       Roosevelt

s)      Shalom

t)       Teferet Bet Israel (Norristown Jewish Community)

 

2) PA – Phila. Area Non-Sectarian Cemeteries – Few Jewish Burials

a)     Arlington

b)     Chelten Hills

c)      Ivy Hill

d)     Mount Moriah

e)     Union

f)       West Laurel Hill

g)     Whitmarsh

 

3) PA – Phila. Area Inactive Jewish Cemeteries

a)     Agudath Achim

b)     Ahaves Chased Anshe Shavel

c)      Bellevue

d)     Beth Israel (Arabella or Rabella)

e)     Beth Israel

f)       Deal Brothers

g)     Gladwyne Jewish (Har Hazetim & Chevra Kadusha)

h)     Hebrew Mutual (B’nai Israel)

i)        Hillside

j)        Kesher Israel

k)      Lafayette – Jewish Section

l)        Mikveh Israel #1

m)   Mikveh Israel #2

n)     Mikveh Israel #3 (Beth Emeth)

o)     Rodeph Sholom #1 (German Hebrew)

p)     Rodeph Sholom #2

q)     Rodeph Sholom #3 (Nicetown)

r)       Rodeph Sholom #4 (Harrowgate)

s)      Unknown #1

t)        Unknown #2

 

4) PA – Phila. Area Jewish Funeral Directors

a)     Active Jewish Undertakers

i)        Berschler and Schenberg

ii)      Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Raphael Sacks

iii)    Joseph Levine & Sons

iv)    Stillman

b)     Inactive Jewish Funeral Directors

i)         Asher & Son

ii)        Al Berschler

iii)       Benjamin Berschler

iv)       Dave Berschler

v)         Joe Berschler

vi)       Chandler

vii)      Goldman

viii)     Charles Khan

ix)         Abe Molnick

x)           Raphael

xi)          Reisman

xii)         Jacob Rosen & Son

xiii)        Morris Rosenberg & Son

xiv)         Stanley Wisnoff

xv)           Wymbs

 

5)    PA – Phila. Area Synagogues

a)     Active

i)        Adath Jeshurun

ii)      Beth Sholom

iii)    Keneseth Israel

iv)    Mikva Israel

v)      Rodelph Shalom

vi)    Temple Beth Am

vii)  Temple Or Ami

viii)   Temple Sinai

b)     Inactive

 

6)    PA – Phila. Private Sector Sites

a)     Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

b)     College of Physician of Philadelphia

c)      Independence Seaport Museum

d)     Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

e)     Library Company of Philadelphia

f)       National Liberty Museum

g)     National Museum of American Jewish history

h)     Philadelphia Jewish Archives

i)        Rosenbach Museum and Library

j)        Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

k)      Tuttleman Library of Gratz College

l)        Urban Archives & Paley Library of Temple University

    m)  Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania

 

7)   PA – Phila. Area Governmental Sites

a)     Atwater Kent Museum

b)     Bucks County Courthouse

c)      Free Library of Philadelphia

d)     Montgomery County Archives

e)     Montgomery County Courthouse

f)       National Archives, Mid-Atlantic Region (NARA)

g)     Montgomery County – Norristown Public Library

h)     Pennsylvania Dept of Health – Div of Vital Records

i)        Philadelphia City Archives

j)        Philadelphia Clerk of Orphan’s Court

k)      Philadelphia Dept of Records, Reference Division

l)        Philadelphia Historical Commission

m)   Philadelphia Office of the Prothonotary

n)     Philadelphia Register of Wills

o)     US District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

 

8)    PA Historical Societies

a)   Potential Jewish Interest

i)        Buck County HS

ii)      Chester County HS

iii)    HS of Fort Washington

iv)    Germantown HS

v)      HS of Pennsylvania (includes Balch Institute For Ethnic Studies)

vi)    Lansdale HS

vii)  Lower Merion HS

viii)            HS of Montgomery County

ix)    Old York Road HS

b)  Little Material of Jewish Interest

i)       See listings

 

9)    Southern New Jersey Cemeteries

a)     Jewish

i)                    Ahavath Israel

ii)                  Alliance

iii)                Anshe Emes (People of Truth)

iv)                Beth Kehillah

v)                  Bordentown

vi)                Brith Sholom

vii)              Cong. Brothers of Israel #1

viii)            Cong. Brothers of Israel #2

ix)                Cong. Workers of Truth (Poale Emet)

x)                  Cresent

xi)                Emith Shalom

xii)              Ewing

xiii)            Fountain Lawn

xiv)            Greenmount

xv)              Greenwood – Trenton

xvi)            Har Sinai

xvii)          Jewish Rest

xviii)        Knights of Pythias Jewish – Flemington Lodge

xix)            Knights of Pythias (Fortitude Benevolent Association)

xx)              Locustwood

xxi)            New Camden

xxii)          Rodef Shalom

xxiii)        Rosenhayn

xxiv)        Sons of Israel

xxv)          Sons of Jacob

xxvi)        Temple Emeth Shalom

xxvii)      Trenton Young Judea

xxviii)    Tuckertown

xxix)        Workman’s Circle

b)     Southern New Jersey - Non-sectarian – no Jewish Section, few graves

i)                    Atlantic City

ii)                  Laurel Memorial Park

iii)                Greenwood - Millville

iv)                Mount Pleasant

v)                  Oak Grove

vi)             Oak Hill

vii)              Siloam

 

10)    Southern NJ Jewish Funeral Directors

a)     Belkoff-Goldstein

b)     Bernheim Apter Kreitzman Suburban

c)      Berschler Shenberg and Blady

d)     Bloomfield-Cooper

e)     Goldstein

f)       Gutterman and Musicant

g)     Orland Ewing Memorial

h)     Platt Memorial

i)        Riverside

j)        Robert Schoem’s Menorah

k)      Roth-Goldstein’s Memorial

l)        Wien & Wien

 

11)    Southern NJ Private Sector Sites

a)     Burlington County Historical Society (HS)

b)     Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

c)      Jewish HS of Central New Jersey

d)     Jewish Museum of New Jersey

e)     Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage

f)       Tri County Jewish HS (Camden County HS)

 

12)    Southern NJ Governmental Sites

i)           Atlantic City Free Public Library

ii)         Camden City Hall

iii)       Camden County Library

iv)       Camden Free Public Library

v)         Newark Public Library

vi)       New Jersey Division of Archives and History

vii)     New Jersey State Library

viii)   Trenton Public Library

 

13)    Delaware Resources

a)     Cemeteries

i)        Beth Emit Memorial Park

ii)      Jewish community Cemetery

iii)    Machzikey Hadas Cemetery

b)     Funeral Directors

i)        Schoenberg

c)      Jewish Historical Society of Delaware

d)     Delaware Vital Records ???

 

14)    Out of Area Sites

a)    American Jewish Archive

b)    American Jewish Historical Society Library

c)    Avotanu

d)    Library of Congress

e)    National Archives