Our Past | How our heritage-listed Jewish Cemetery came about

By Janis Wilton
Updated April 15 2021 - 12:13am, first published August 9 2020 - 12:00pm
AFTER: The Maitland Jewish Cemetery in 2019 after restoration work and a major clean up. Picture Clare James.
AFTER: The Maitland Jewish Cemetery in 2019 after restoration work and a major clean up. Picture Clare James.

On December 9, 1846 the Maitland Mercury reported that "members of the Hebrew persuasion have purchased a piece of ground ... as a burial ground for the dead of their faith".

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