Adath Israel Temple

The temple came after the school. In spring 1922 Fannie Weinstein invited Greenville's rabbi, Samuel Rabinowitz, to speak at the Cleveland PTA, and Jews from the town began planning a religious school. The Community Hebrew School opened in 1923 with 53 children and served Bolivar County. Worshippers came from Drew, Ruleville, Rosedale, Shaw, Boyle, Pace, Merigold and Shelby. The building fund drew nearly $4,000 from non-Jews, $1,200 from wholesalers in Memphis and St. Louis, $750 from Merigold and $1,000 from Rosedale.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dockery Farms — 6.3 mi
  The plantation on the Sunflower River where Charley Patton lived and played from about 1900, now a working farm, a National Register district and a Mississippi Blues Trail stop.
• Mound Bayou — 9.5 mi
  The Bolivar County town founded in 1887 by men who had been enslaved at Davis Bend, built to be Black-owned, home of Taborian Hospital and a museum on Roosevelt Street.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 11 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.
• Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary) — 17 mi
  The state penitentiary on Sunflower County cotton land, built in 1900 as a prison plantation, where Freedom Riders were held in 1961; a working prison with no visits and a Blues Trail marker at its gate.

More markers nearby

• The Enlightenment of W.C. Handy — steps away
• Gospel and the Blues — 0.3 mi
• Margaret Wade — 0.3 mi
• Cleveland — 0.4 mi