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Thursday, August 29, 2013

The Hunts Bay Jewish Cemetery, Jamaica

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

In another book by Marilyn Delvante...... The Hunts Bay Jewish Cemetery is the one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the Western Hemisphere and the oldest in Jamaica. 
There is a tombstone that dates as far as 1672. The Jews of Port Royal established this cemetery across the Kingston Harbour at Hunts Bay, before the city of Kingston was laid out. The 1692 earthquake destroyed 2/3 of Port Royal taking the synagogue, and the street known as Jew Street. Burials continued throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries there.

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