KEMERI, now part of Jurmala (Latvian Republic). In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was a town in the Kemmern district of the Riga province of Livonia. In 1918–40, it was part of the Republic of Latvia, and in 1940–91, - part of the Latvian SSR.

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, there was a Jewish population in Kemeri. In 1921, Jews owned a boarding house,and there were two doctors among the Jews of Kemeri.