4901 Canal Street in Mid City
Click on the headstones above for the Dispersed of Judah cemetery photo album
This is the second Jewish cemetery to be built in New Orleans. It opened in 1846 on land purchased and donated by Judah P. Touro, shortly after Spanish-Portuguese Jews organized the Congregation Nefuzoth Yehudah (Dispersed of Judah). A stone was placed in the main aisle of the cemetery in memory of Judah Touro, benefactor of the congregation, who died in 1854. Merged with Congregation Gates of Mercy in 1881, the name was changed to Congregation Gates of Mercy of the Dispersed of Judah. In 1937, the name of the congregation was changed to Touro Synagogue. Most of the tombs have sayings carved in Hebrew. There is one very unique memorial tomb of a carved stone chair created for Lilla Benjamin who died in 1911. This cemetery has a few table-top/platform tombs which is strange considering it is Jewish custom to bury the dead below ground.
courtesy ofjewishgen.org