On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:39:53 -0500 KARLA KT SHAHAN <[email protected]> writes: >Jewish families have successfully carried on from early times on the >Eastern Seaboard and across the South... most probably in some of the >most difficult circumstances imaginable. >What are some of the family surnames and communities and migration >paths across the South? >[email protected] The Jews of America arrived in what is now New York City in 1654. In 1820, the largest Jewish community in the US was in Charleston, SC. My Jewish research has not been broad, but rather, has been directed toward answering specific questions having to do with the War Between the States. Some of the Jewish surnames found are listed below. These are certainly only a fraction of the hundreds of Jewish surname, but perhaps will help you begin. Annette Elam Wetzel Rubsamen, Jacobs, Lesser, Ezekiel, Michelbacher of Virginia Meyers/Myers of Virginia and South Carolina DeLeon of South Carolina Levy and Baruch of South Carolina Mordecai of Virginia, Alabama and North Carolina Salvador, Francis, of SC, the first Jew elected to public office (1775) and the first Jew to die for American Independance (1776) Benjamin, Cohen, Marochi, Young, Marx, Mears, Lazarus Yulee of Florida Moses of Georgia Straus, Leon, Frauenthal, Gleitzman, Menken The following is a list of surnames buried in the Confederate section of Hebrew Cemetery, Richmond, VA: Aaron, Adler, Bachrach, Cohen, Eiseman, Foltz, Frank, Gersberg, Heyman, Hessberg, Jacobs, Levy, Lipman, Lehman, Miller, Oury, Robinson, Rosenberg, Sheur, Sampson, Seldner, Wolfe, Wolff, Weiss, Zork Cemetery records reveal the following names as Confederate soldiers and/or veterans buried in private sections of Hebrew Cemetery: Henry Clay Smith - Otey Battery Isaac J. Levy - Co. A, 46th VA Inf. Marx Mittledorfer - Richmond Fayette Art., Co. G, 1st VA Cav. Herman J. Myers - Co. G, 1st VA Cav. Marcus Shultz - Co. D, 10th VA Cav. Herrman Hirsh - Co. A, 12th Va Inf., Co. A, 1st VA Cav. Leopold Levy - courier for Stuart Bernard Beecher - Co. A, 10th VA Cav.