The record for Kanweiler in Access Jewish Cleveland's online burial database
 

Introduction to an Untold Tale of Loving-Kindness
 

After nearly 180 years of weathering, his headstone in Willet Street Cemetery still shows hands raised in the priestly blessing -- a symbol that the Bavarian-born Elchasnador Kanweiler was a Kohen (a member of the priestly class). He was an itinerant peddler who died in a rural area. Citizens there, knowing he was Jewish and that there were Jews in Cleveland, brought his body here in the hope that his brethren would look after him. It may have arrived on Thursday August 6, 1840. Our small Jewish community did not yet own a burial ground. Somehow our first Jewish settlers were able to complete the cemetery purchase and bury Kanweiler  before sundown Friday, which began Shabbat and the most solemn day of the Jewish year: Tisha b'Av. I tell the tale of this communal act of loving-kindness in the hope that it will be remembered and re-told. Arnold Berger August 21, 2018     more to come. photo Jeffrey Morris

The Israelite August 20, 1858