Judith Solomon Cohen

Judith Solomon Cohen (December 21, 1766 – April 5, 1837) was the matriarch of one of the earliest Jewish families in Baltimore, Maryland.

She married Israel I. Cohen, originally from Oberdorf Germany, on December 21, 1787, in England. The couple had emigrated to Richmond, Virginia, by 1784, where Israel worked temporarily as a constable. He was one of the founders of the Congregation Beth Shalome as well as a subscriber for shares of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of the United States of America. Later her son Benjamin would marry Etting's daughter Kitty and the couple became part of Baltimore's elite social circle. It published its own four-page newspaper, Cohen's Gazette and Lottery Register from 1814 until 1830, containing lottery as well as financial news.

The Cohen family lived in a large house on North Charles Street where they kept kosher and held daily services. In the 1850s, they were the sponsors of the short-lived Sephardic Congregation.

Judith Solomon Cohen died in Baltimore on April 5, 1837. The family purchased a tract for her burial on Saratoga Street; it would be used for family burials until the 1970s, when the family was reinterred at Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery.