Jenni Molovinsky Still Teaching Me History

Many years ago my advocacy for Fairview Cemetery resulted from a search for the grave of a young Jewish woman who died in 1913.  During the search I learned about Mt. Sinai, the small Jewish portion of Fairview.  The search ended on Fountain Hill, where I inadvertently also found the grave of my great grandmother, Jenni Molovinsky, buried at Agudas Achim's cemetery.  

Mt. Sinai predated the synagogues in Allentown, and the men's society which founded it was a precursor to the current Kenneth Israel Congregation, which now has its cemetery on Walbert Ave. 

Another Jewish Fraternal organization, the Emil Zola I.O.B.A. of Allentown, also established a cemetery on Fountain Hill.  Zola was a French writer who championed Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew falsely accused of treason in 1894.  The lodge established a burial ground on Fountain Hill in 1898,  near the other Jewish cemetery where Jenni Molovinsky was buried in 1913.

photocredit: J. Nasta