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Jonas Myer Myers

Rev. Jonas Myer Myers (3‑4‑17)

The good man was the Minister of the Brisbane Hebrew Congregation, serving here for 45 years and in Toowoomba and Adelaide for several years. He was, more than anyone else, responsible for the building of the Brisbane Synagogue in Margaret Street. It was started in 1885 and finished in 1886 and remains in full use. The Sepher Torah scroll, at the top of his monument, indicates that he was regarded as a particularly good person. It carries the words,

In everlasting memory

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