Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation
The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation is an American non-profit 501 volunteer historical society. The society locates sites of American and Jewish historical interest and importance. It works with local community organizations, synagogues, churches, historical societies, governments and individuals, to erect interpretive historical markers that help illuminate the American-Jewish experience and reflect on the commonality of being American.
JASHP was founded in 1999 after the discovery by the founder, Jerry Klinger, of the first permanent Jewish house of worship in the territory of New Mexico. JASHP has completed projects in 37 states and in five countries. Projects are constantly being developed and proposals are welcomed. Over 7,000,000 people a year benefit from JASHP projects. The society is a small organization. Each program is individualized with organizational participation from as few as two or three people to as many as 300. Considering JASHP's size, its impact has been disproportionately large.
JASHP is the recipient of Hadassah's Myrtle Wreath Award, which is "given to individuals and non-profit organizations which have made significant humanitarian contributions to our community."
Programs
JASHP has completed programs in the following states reflecting on the Jewish American experience:- Alabama – Mobile, Shaare Shomayim - Gates of Heaven, first permanent Jewish house of worship in Alabama - 1841
- Arkansas – Little Rock
- Concordia Hall
- Broncho Billy Anderson, The First Cowboy Western Movie Star
- Colorado – Cotopaxi, Russian Jewish Cemetery - 1882–1884
- Congressional Medal of Honor Private Benjamin Levy,
- First Jewish American to earn the MOH -1862
- Connecticut – Groton, Jews and the American Navy
- Delaware – Wilmington, Ohabe Shalom, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Delaware - 1880
- Florida, Pensacola, Temple Beth El, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Florida, 1876
- Florida, Palm Beach
- Wakodahatchee Wetlands
- Green Cay Wetlands
- Iowa – Keokuk, B'Nai Israel Congregation, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Iowa - 1855
- Kansas – Kansas City, Jewish American and World War I
- Kansas – Leavenworth, Temple B'Nai Jeshurun, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Kansas - 1866
- Louisiana – New Orleans
- Shangarai Chasset, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Louisiana - 1845
- Touro Infirmary
- Maine – Bangor, Congregation Beth Israel, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship - 1897
- Maryland – Montgomery County, Sophia Chamys, victim of white slavery
- Maryland – Hagerstown, Thomas Kennedy, Jew Bill of Maryland
- Minnesota – Saint Paul, Mt. Zion Temple, first permanent Jewish House of Worship in Minnesota - 1856
- Mississippi – Jackson, Temple Beth Israel, first permanent Jewish house of worship in Mississippi - 1867
- Mississippi – Natchez, Temple B'Nai Israel, first organized Jewish house of worship in Mississippi
- Montana – Helena, Temple Emanuel, first permanent Jewish house of worship in Montana - 1890
- Nebraska – Omaha, Congregation of Israel, first permanent Jewish house of worship in Nebraska - 1884
- Nevada – Virginia City
- Engineering Marvels of the Comstock
- Virginia City Jewish Cemetery - 1862
- New Hampshire – Portsmouth, Temple Israel, First Permanent House of Worship - 1910
- New Jersey – Roosevelt, Jersey Homesteads
- New Mexico – Las Vegas, Congregation Montefiore, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in New Mexico - 1884
- New York – Buffalo, Mordechai Noah and Ararat
- North Dakota – Valley City,#Herman Stern, Holocaust rescuer
- North Dakota – Ashley Jewish Cemetery, NRHP
- North Dakota – Bonanazaville, North Dakota Jewry
- Oklahoma – Oklahoma City, Temple B'Nai Israel, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Oklahoma - 1908
- Pennsylvania – Lancaster, Joseph Simon, Jewish American frontiersman
- South Dakota
- Jews of Deadwood
- Mount Rushmore National Monument
- Mount Rushmore National Monument, "Father of Mt. Rushmore"
- Congregation Sons of Israel, Sioux Falls, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in South Dakota - 1916
- Tennessee – Memphis, Congregation Children of Israel, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Tennessee - 1854
- Utah, Clarion
- Jewish Agricultural Settlement - 1911
- Utah – Salt Lake City
- Congregation B'Nai Israel, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Utah - 1883
- Utah – Wild Horse Butte
- Solomon Carvalho - John C. Fremont Expedition of exploration 1853–54
- Virginia – Richmond, Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalome, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Virginia - 1789
- Washington – Spokane, Temple Emanuel, First Permanent Jewish House of worship in Washington State - 1892
- West Virginia – Charleston, Temple Israel, first permanent Jewish house of worship in West Virginia - 1873
- Wyoming – Cheyenne, Mt. Sinai Congregation, first permanent Jewish house of worship in Wyoming - 1915
Special programs
- Leo Frank, Marietta, Georgia
- Leo Frank Lynching
- Stephen Norman, Jerusalem, Israel
- The last descendant of Theodor Herzl - the father of the modern State of Israel
- Four Chaplains, Memorial - U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
- U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
- American Holocaust Memorials
- Paramaribo, Suriname
- Holocaust and Memory
International projects
- John Henry Patterson, Avihayil, Israel
- Godfather of the Israel Defense Forces
- Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany
- The "Kleine Lager" Memorial
- Adam Worth, London, England
- Rev. William Hechler - First Christian Zionist, London, England
- Joan Winters, Jerusalem, Israel
- Paramaribo, Suriname, Holocaust and Memory
- SS Exodus, Haifa, Israel
- Exodus - 1947, the iconic American Holocaust rescue ship
- Bill Bernstein - American second officer on the Exodus murdered during the British attack
Charitable sponsorships
- Hero Miles - Fisher House Foundation
JASHP articles on American Jewish history
- Kahal HaKadosh Beit Elohim, Charleston, S.C.
- American Holocaust Memorializations
- Reverend John Stanley Grauel - Secret Haganah operative on the S.S. Exodus
- American Jewish History,
- Zionism and Israel