Rabbi Shmuel Marcus

Rabbi Shmuel Marcus

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Date of Death: Thu. March 30, 1854 - 5614 (1854, exact date in unknown)

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Directions to Kever: Lafayette Cemetery of Temple Beth El - Detroit, Michigan

Biographical Notes:

In 1850 12 Orthodox men formed Detroit’s first Jewish congregation, the Beth El Society. In a characteristic pattern, they hired a rabbi, Rabbi Samuel Marcus of New York, who for $200 a year also served as the mohel, the shohet, the cantor, the teacher of the children, and the judge to settle community disputes. They rented a room in which to meet, set up a school, bought land for a cemetery, arranged for traditional burials, and formed societies to care for the sick, the poor, and the widows and orphans. Rabbi Marcus died in the cholera epidemic of 1854. Soon after (1856), the congregation spill up after many new reforms were introduced.

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