The First Jewish Cemetery in the United States

Mark O'Mara: I admire all the different kinds of work that you do. i thought, what an extraordinary opportunity to talk to a chronicler of contemporary american jewish religious life about something while he's actually doing it in real time. My family goes back in pittsburg into the 18 forties, when my great, great great grandfather, wilhelm, or william frank, was one of four jews who got together to acchoir land for the first cemetery there. And as i say, my father grew up in squirrel hill, and so did his father and his grandfather.