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HISTORIAN TELLS OF JEWISH CEMETERY AT SCHAEFFERSTOWNtbSt]mttimar01ccinlLBending, Pa., Today. — {/?}• — A local .historian claims that Jews wo in Berks county 20 yours before any other people. 'Evfdeneo of Hebraic presence In botli Lebanon ami Berks countloH at- u remote period are In ftxifitcncG*At old Schaefferstbwii, a quaint village in Lebanon county, is the site of a graveyard, ions known locally as Dor Yutta Korlch-hof” (the Jewish churchyard)*, or Jewish ceme-t cry*In the basement of a well-kept hotel in the same town can be seen several monster stone arches forming walla and pier foundations, altogether out of proportion to the building itself.' , ' „ ,Those immense examples of early masonry show just how far Jews got with an Intended synagogue until halted by Indians or arriving Germans in 1722,It tho visitor snoops” around town, he will discover a further bit ^ of proof of Jewish presence—-tomb- D stones Inscribed with ancient Hebrew symbols, anti’ forming part of cellar walls of a local house, traces of sacrillglous work on the. part of builder decades ago.It is reported that those vanished Jews were bent upon proselyting tlio Indians back into tho folds of Jehudda. They believed, as students maintain today, that the Indian was a survival from the lost Israelite tribes who reached America by way of Bering Strait, when it was lux isthmus.Tradition stales that Holland miners from early New York City trekked into Lebanon and Berks in search of ore and that their' stay was short on account of Indian hostility.They, however, left their card, as did tho Jews. Long before any other race- discovered the rich ore beds at Cornwall in Lebanon those Hollanders had surface pits at intervals in the neighborhood. Timo has effaced those pioneer excuvations.A number of thoir pits, however, remain at another once busy iron mart, Sally Ann Furnace, now tho picturesque estate of former Congressman Charles J. Kslorly, in Bock kind township, Berks county.Prom this sequestered spot, amid the hills of Northeast Berks, eon-
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Lebanon Daily News and the Lebanon Daily Times
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, May 04, 1927
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