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The Early Jews of Wilmington

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28658
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Abstract:
In the 1850s, several Jewish merchants established in Wilmington. While there were not enough Jews to form a congregation, by the middle of the 1850s enough had arrived to form a charitable society and to establish a burial ground for members of the faith.