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The loss of the marker still stings
to those on campus. "We are very
proud of the fact that this historic
site for the Jewish community and
Ann Arbor community is a part of
our campus," said U-M Hillel associ-
ate director Tilly Shames. "Our cam-
pus community is strengthened by
knowing and preserving our history,
and we are hopeful that the marker
will be restored swiftly?'

Oldest Jewish Cemetery
Ann Arbor resident Helen Aminoff,
the woman responsible for the mark-
er's placement, was the first to notice
its defacement while driving by its
location near the Rackham Building
on Central Campus.
She began to uncover the site's
history in 1980, when members of a
nearby fraternity found a headstone
with Hebrew script dated 1858. The
fraternity turned over the headstone
to Beth Israel Congregation in Ann
Arbor after its discovery. From her
research, Aminoff, working with the
temple, dated the site of the original
cemetery to between 1848 and 1849
when the Jews Society of Ann Arbor
acquired the rights for burial on
the land, which was next to a public
cemetery.
Aminoff's research inspired the
Jewish Historical Society of Michigan
(JHSM) to publish The First Jews of
Ann Arbor in 1983, one year after the
site was recognized by the Michigan
State Housing Development Authority
as the first Jewish cemetery in the
state.
"The marker is important — not
as a dead piece of history, but as a

living monument to the Jewish com-
munity in Ann Arbor 15 years before
the start of the Civil War," said Judy
Cantor, past president of the JHSM
and author of Jews in Michigan.
Cantor is concerned metal thieves
might target other Jewish historical
markers in the state, such as those
that honor Jewish fur traders from
the 1760s in Fort Michilimackinac
and along the Detroit Riverwalk.
"The metal on the plaque appears to
be bronze, but it is has no real value
she said.
Cantor said JHSM works with the
state's historical commission to have
the markers placed and pays about
$2,000 for each. "The implications of
vandalism are most significant:' she
said.

U-M To Replace Marker
The Jewish Historical Society won't
have to incur any costs to replace
the marker. U-M is working with
appropriate state officials and will do
"whatever it takes" to get the marker
replaced as soon as possible, Brown
said.
Aminoff said she is devastated
by the vandalism, but very pleased
with the university's response to the
unfortunate incident.
"Mary Sue Coleman, the president
of the university, spoke with me her-
self to assure me the marker would
be replaced:' she said.
Aimee Ergas, JHSM director, said
her first preference would be to see
the marker repaired by putting the
two halves back together, leaving
a space to make the break evident.
"Then the vandalism would become

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At this site the first Jewish cemetery in Michigan was established
in 1848 - 49. The Jews Society of Ann Arbor acquired burial rights
to this land adjacent to what was then the public cemetery. Several
years earlier, immigrants from Germany and Austria had organized
the first Jewish community in the state. Their first religious services
were held in the homes of the five Well brothers in the vicinity of
the family tannery, J. Weil and Brothers. Members of the Jewish
community participated in all aspects of the city's life. Jacob Well
served Ann Arbor as alderman from 1859 to 1861. By the 1880s this
original Jewish community no longer existed. In 1900 the remains
of those buried here were reinterred in Ann Arbor's Forest Hill
Cemetery.

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