Author: CemeteryScribes

Funchal Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish Cemetery in Funchal, Madeiria faces the sea and has been damaged by erosion. From the plaque above the...

Here are some photos taken recently of Bancroft Road Jewish Cemetery. We have written a number of articles on the...

We were recently contacted by a sharp-eyed researcher who suspected we had a duplicate entry for Benjamin Woolf. Normally, such...

The serendipity of the random Google Search occasionally drops an unexpected sugar plum in your lap.. One such dropped into...

Photos from Etterbeek Cemetery, Jewish section:

Photos from Dieweg Cemetery, Jewish section:

We set up The CemeteryScribes project in 2008. Our aim was to photograph and record the information inscribed over the...

What makes The Old Hoxton Cemetery and the Bancroft/Maiden Lane Cemetery different from all the other cemeteries that appear on...

In the course of our travels around the UK, we have visited many Anglo-Jewish burial grounds, from the peaceful walled...

In 1177 Henry II gave a licence for Jewish communitites to have a burial ground in any city in Great...