Maitland Jewish Cemetry

Maitland’s Jewish Cemetery, set in a forgotten corner of Louth Park in West Maitland, dates from the late 1840s and contains some fifty graves. Significant as the only Jewish cemetery north of Sydney until the early 20th century, over the years, floods, erosion, and periods of neglect have affected the cemetery and the inscriptions on the gravestones. Despite the wear and passage of time, the cemetery marks the key role that Maitland played in New South Wale’s early colonial history and, within Maitland, the important role of the small Jewish community there.