After the first Jew, Joseph Jonas, arrived in Cincinnati in 1817, Jews from many lands and ethnicities migrated to Cincinnati. Most of them were Ashkenazic Jews from Europe, but beginning in 1907, a not insignificant number were Sephardic Jews who left Turkey in the last years of the Ottoman Empire.
After watching Spring Grove featured on World's Greatest Cemeteries last October, Carrie Rhodus of the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati decided to pitch the public TV series about returning here for another episode."We've got just as much history as Spring Grove," she told her boss.