Category: Cemeteries & history
Articles that focus on the history of Jewish Cemeteries in the UK
Selected Bibliography and online sites of Jewish Cemeteries and tombstones worldwide by Dr P Kirby. The table below can be searched using the search box or sorted using the arrows.
We are posting tombstone photos from Streatham Jewish Cemetery on our new Flickr site. Many have names and Hebrew names in the photo description so can be searched. Currently 1300 photos with several thousand...
https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/18838437.lottery-funding-secures-future-ponsharden-burial-ground-falmouth/ The Jewish cemetery was founded in 1780 and the Dissenters in 1808 and together they were in active use for just over 100 years and contain over 700 burials, many unmarked. They give...
We are delighted to have been in contact with Christina Hilsenrath Craig, Chair, Friends of the Bath Jewish Burial Ground, who is studying and researching all those buried at Bath Jewish Burial Ground, Combe...
Then you should pay a visit to the site “Danish-Jewish Funerals and Tombstones up to 1866” at http://tom.brondsted.dk/mosaiskebegravelser/?lang=en available in both English and Danish. The site covers all known Danish-Jewish funerals from the earliest...
The following is an extract of a letter to the Jewish Chronicle (17 Aug 2018), detailing the state of Wolverhampton cemetery and the plans and hopes of The Council of Birmingham and West Midlands...
(With the kind permission of Philip Kirby, from his posts on Jewish Roots British-Genealogy.com) I am posting a summary of the names and inscriptions of the Jews buried in the ‘Jew’s Closed Burial Ground...
We are currently adding photos from Streatham Jewish Cemetery. These are being added in an ‘uncut’ format meaning that we have not, as yet, researched the individuals and added them to our main database....
United Synagogue Heritage have told us about two exciting new events taking place on Sunday 17th September 2017: Discover Willesden Cemetery with Open House London The United Synagogue’s first event with Open House London,...