In 1839 the kehilla in Puławy gained a permission to establish a new cemetery which was supposed to replace the old cemetery in Włostowice for sanitary reasons. The new cemetery was situated in Piaskowa Street near the crossroads with today’s Kołłątaja Street, north of the today Catholic cemetery.

The area of the cemetery was fenced. There were also a mortuary and a caretaker’s house there. The cemetery was wrecked by the Germans during the occupation. Also the ohel of tzaddik Morgenstern was destroyed then and the matzevot were used for laying pavements in the Factory of Gelatine. In the 1960s the buildings of the Urban Company of Municipal Management were built in this place[1.1]. The local museum still keeps a gravestone from 1849.