New Orleans

America's first Reform-practice congregation (1828) and the South's early Jewish elite (Judah P. Benjamin); a small historic community.

Modern locality anchor

New Orleans

United States · City · 29.9°N 90.1°W

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Where is New Orleans?

Land geometry: Natural Earth 1:50m via world-atlas. Pins mark modern localities or representative regional anchors stored on Atlas place records, not historical borders and not reconstructed positions. · Sources & methods

THE COMMUNITY TIMELINE · EVERY NODE DATED

What happened to the Jewish community of New Orleans?

1724–1828

Colonial-era presence under Code Noir exception

1828–1865

Antebellum prominence

1900–present

Modern small community

Today

Small historic community.

LANGUAGES & COMMUNITY

What did New Orleans sound like?

Hebrew (עברית, Ivrit)

AFTER · IN FULL COLOR

What survives today?

In New Orleans

Small historic community.

Touro Synagogue (1828 congregation)
synagogue · public landmark
Gates of Prayer (Dispersed of Judah)
synagogue · public landmark

SOURCES & REVIEW

Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. (place entry)
Macmillan Reference USA · 2007

Reviewed 2026-07-30

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