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Beloved an artistic view of one of the South's oldest Jewish cemeteries "A Jewish cemetery is, in fact, a living memorial and an everlasting sign of love and respect." - author Rabbi Greenstein In Judaism, a cemetery is as much for the living as it is for the dead. The Temple Israel Museum commissioned a unique photographic exhibit of the Temple Israel Cemetery, located some five miles south of downtown Memphis.
Through the keen artistic eye of photographer Murray Riss, this unforgettable body of work, simply titled Beloved allows everyone to experience and appreciate the solemnity and beauty of this sacred ground.
The history of Temple Israel's cemetery can be traced to the death of one man, Samuel S. Andrews, who died in Memphis on November 20, 1846, just a quarter-century after the founding of Memphis and 15 years before the Civil War. It was the first Jewish cemetery established in Tennessee.
Murray Riss' photographs are accompanied by context and commentary by author Rabbi Micah Greenstein and Susan Adler Thorp. Through the photographs and text, one can feel a renewed sense of the intimate connection between the history of Temple Israel and Memphis, and a recognition of the reality that we all exist in the present in seamless harmony with the past.