Savannah's Old Jewish Community Cemeteries

This compact volume includes the "complete known history of both the 1733 burial plot granted the Jews of Savannah by General James Edward Oglethorpe and a complete history of the Jewish Community Cemetery, the land for which was deeded to ten trustees by Colonel Mordecai Sheftall including the likely reasons prompting Sheftall to do so." Appended to the histories of the cemeteries is all the information that careful research could unearth concerning the personal histories of those persons interred therein.

Extensive research and careful documentation characterize Mr. Levy's study. In addition Mr. Levy has included a number of original photographs from his own and his wife's collections. This significant study is an important contribution to the history of the Jews in Savannah, Georgia, and the South.

B. H. Levy, a native of Savannah, is a senior partner in the law firm of Bouhan, Williams, and Levy in that city. This is his first Mercer University Press book.