Touro Synagogue (New Orleans, La.)

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Touro Synagogue is a Reform synagogue in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was named after Judah Touro, the son of Isaac Touro, the namesake of the country's oldest synagogue, Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. The New Orleans Touro Synagogue is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States and the oldest in the country outside the original Thirteen Colonies.

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referencedIn Rabbi Isaac L. Leucht papers Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
referencedIn Isaac L. Leucht Papers The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
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associatedWith Leucht, I. L. (Isaac L.), 1844-1914. person
associatedWith Leucht, Isaac L. person
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New Orleans LA US
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Establishment 1828

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