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Mother Lode Jewish Community

Mine E. Grassetti's children line up to shovel earth onto her coffin at the Sonora Hebrew Cemetery, July 8: (from left) Daniel Grassetti, Richard Grassetti, Elizabeth Grassetti and Silvia Grassetti-Kruglikov. (Photo/Union Democrat-Shelly Thorene)
Posted inNorthern California

Sonora Hebrew Cemetery hosts final burial for Holocaust survivor

by Giuseppe Ricapito July 26, 2021

A version of this article first appeared in The Union Democrat of Sonora and is reprinted with permission. The pioneer Sonora Hebrew Cemetery interred its final occupant on the morning […]

the plaque reads: "established in approximately 1851 by the Hebrew Congregation of Sonora, later known as the Sonora and Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society; this was the first Jewish cemetery in the Gold Rush region."
Posted inJewish Life

Gold Rush-era Jewish cemetery cleanup with Mother Lode Jewish Community

by J. Staff May 1, 2017
MLJC members:  Josh Freedman, Rick Singer, Nancy Singer, David Simons, Brenda Citron, Cindy Lavagetto, Loren Gonella, Rabbi Andra Greenwald, Bill Wittmer, and Camp Tel Yehudah representative Mac Lindner.
Posted inCommunity, Jewish Life

Jews in far-flung Mother Lode find community of riches

by Adam Fischer February 28, 2017March 6, 2017

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