Jamaica: The United Congregation of Israelites (Synagogue “Shaare Shalom”) Jewish Heritage Center in Kingston expands digitalization program.

Jamaica: The United Congregation of Israelites (Synagogue “Shaare Shalom”) Jewish Heritage Center in Kingston Expands Digitalization program.

(ISJM) Ainsley Henriques reports to ISJM that the Jewish Heritage Center at the Uniited Congregation of Israelites has begun digitizing its collection of historic photographs from the Ernest de Souza Collection. The Center’s reference library is also being cataloged. The next task in the Center’s program is be to catalog the Kritzler collection of historic materials, papers, pamphlets, magazines and books. The Center looks forward to a significant increase in school tours to the museum, which has been rated by a visiting Educational expert in religious education to the Ministry of Education as “one of the best that she has ever seen”

ISJM has partnered with the Center on the documentation of the 18th century Jewish cemetery at Hunt's Bay, outside of Kingston.