Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica

With its more than 60,000 titles, the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica is the largest in the Southeast, concentrating on the political, social, economic and intellectual history of Jewish culture in all historical periods. At the time of ...

Hillel Foundation (University of Florida)

Hillel Houses provide a focus for Jewish social, cultural, and religious life on campuses throughout the nation. Founded in 1937 as the first Hillel in Florida, the present building was dedicated in 1952. This Hillel became a center not only ...

Congregation Sons of Israel (Conservative)

This congregation was founded in 1908 and the synagogue was dedicated in 1923. For decades before that, the Jews of St. Augustine and Fernandina Beach met in homes for religious worship. The synagogue was built in 1923 using stained glass ...

Congregation Sons of Israel Cemetery

The oldest unmarked grave in this cemetery is that of a Jewish peddler killed by Indians in 1840. His grave, supposedly beneath a large tree, was the reason why the surrounding land was designated a Jewish cemetery in 1911. The ...

Archer Train Depot, Archer Community Museum, Archer Historical Society

Archer celebrates the second Saturday of each June as David Levy Yulee Day in honor of the June 12, 1810, birthdate of Florida's first senator. Yulee named the town in 1855 to honor his friend, James T. Archer, Florida's first ...

Ahavath Chesed and B'nai Israel Cemeteries, Gate 5 Evergreen Cemetery

Because the Jewish section at the Old City Cemetery was running out of space in 1890, the synagogue acquired three acres adjoining Evergreen Cemetery for Jewish burial. A makeshift fence was placed around the cemetery to set it apart from ...

Jacksonville Jewish Center (Conservative)

Roy Benjamin designed this building in 1927 for the Jacksonville Jewish Center, founded in 1901 as the B'nai Israel Orthodox Congregation. The congregation wanted the building to be both a house of prayer and a social center. A synagogue was ...

Florida Theatre (a performing arts center)

Seven stories tall, the Mediterranean Revival style Florida Theatre was considered the finest theater in Jacksonville when it opened in 1927. Roy A. Benjamin, co-architect, figured prominently in the rebuilding of Jacksonville after the fire of 1901. Benjamin designed both ...

Cohen Brothers Store, St. James Building (Jacksonville City Hall)

Cohen Brothers Store, St. James Building (Jacksonville City Hall)

Occupying the entire block, the St. James Building has been a Jacksonville landmark since its completion in 1912. The Cohen brothers, who commissioned the construction of the building, hired renowned Jacksonville architect ...

Old City Cemetery

Resident Moses Serfarty died in 1857 and was buried in Charleston, South Carolina because Jacksonville had no Jewish cemetery. Subsequently, Jacksonville Jews organized the Hebrew Benevolent Society and acquired what became the first cemetery designated for Jewish burial in Florida. ...