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Touro Cemetery

By Ruth Breindel & Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
Jews can have religious services any place, but you need hallowed ground for a burial. Although the Newport cemetery was established in 1677, Touro Synagogue was consecrated in 1763. Touro is the oldest Jewish cemetery in Rhode Island, established…
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This work is licensed by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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