History of The Jews in Pennsylvania - Schaefferstown

Schaefferstown

Schaefferstown, now in Lebanon County, but originally in Lancaster county, is supposed to have contained Jewish inhabitants. According to tradition a synagogue existed there early in the eighteenth century, and a cemetery was established about 1732. The early German Pietists assumed many of the old Hebrew customs, and consequently were confounded with the Jews.

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