The gravestone of Hannah Waterman in the Mishkan Israel Cemetery is the first known Jewish burial in New Haven. She was the wife of Dr. Sigmund (Sigismund) Waterman, the first Jewish instructor at Yale.
This photo, by Werner S. Hirsch, was published in Volume II of Jews in New Haven.
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