The congregation was formed in 1840 during a second wave of Jewish immigration to the area, and it is the oldest Jewish congregation in the state of Mississippi.[2][3] By the 1870s, Temple B'nai Israel in Natchez was also the largest Jewish congregation in the state, and one-third of all mercantile businesses in the city of Natchez were owned by members of this temple.[4]
The architect of the present building was H. A. Overbeck, he had previously designed a synagogue in Dallas, Texas.[1] The cornerstone for the building was laid in July 1904, and the space was dedicated on March 25, 1905, with Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati and more than 600 in attendance. The design of this temple may have influenced Overbeck's similarly designed Hebrew Union Temple, built in 1906 in Greenville, Mississippi.[1]
The building was part of the history exhibition, FromAlsace to America: Discovering Southern Jewish Heritage (1998) sponsored by the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience.[5][6] By 2010, only around a dozen Jewish residents lived in Natchez.[7]
^ abcd"Temple B'nai Israel". Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH).
^ abTuritz, Leo; Turitz, Evelyn (1983). Jews in Early Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 12–13. ISBN978-0-87805-178-6.
^"Natchez Jewish Temple Serves Concordia". The Concordia Sentinel (Vidalia, Louisiana). August 20, 1975. p. 23. Retrieved 2023-05-02 – via Newspapers.com.
^Anderson, Aaron D. (2013-01-23). Builders of a New South: Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865–1914. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 399. ISBN978-1-62846-772-7.
^"Alsace to America on display in Jackson". The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana). June 11, 1998. Retrieved 2023-05-01, pgs. C-1, C-2 – via Newspapers.com.
^"'Alsace to America' exhibit opens in Jackson". Scott County Times (Forest, Mississippi). June 17, 1998. Retrieved 2023-05-02 – via Newspapers.com.
^Wagster Pettus, Emily (April 2, 2010). "Traveling rabbi serves tiny Southern congregations". The Marion Star. Retrieved 2023-05-02 – via Newspapers.com.
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