Selected Bibliography and online sites of Jewish Cemeteries and tombstones worldwide
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.
| Country | Title / Website | Author | Publisher / Date of Publication | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADEN | Tombstones bearing Hebrew Inscriptions in Aden. http://halachicadventures.com | Franke-Klein. A | Arabian Archaeology and epigraphy.2005 Online article by subscription-Wiley online library | 200 Hebrew epitaphs discovered up to publication date and their analysis |
| AFRICA | Cape Verde Jewish Heritage Project Publications List. https://capeverdejewishheritage.org | Cape Verde Jewish Heritage Project. Inc. Online website | An ongoing project | Restored and dedication of the Jewish Cemeteries Ponta do Sol. Penha de Franca in Ribera Grananda.Santao Antao. The purpose of the project is to honour the memory and contributions of the Sephardic families who settled in Cape Verde from Morocco and Gibraltar during the mid-19th century |
| ALBANIA | International Jewish Cemetery Project. https://iajgscemetery.org | JewishGen website online | JewishGen online world wide burial registry | One cemetery and 1 burial |
| ALGERIA | Grave connections: Algeria’s Jewish Cemeteries as sites of diaspora-homeland contact. https://www.tandfonline.com | Jay.S.T. | 2017 online abstract which requires subscription | An account of a family seeking to bury their father in the Jewish cemetery in Algiers closed to the public since 1962. The positive effect the process had on their understanding of Algerian Jewish history and culture. |
| ALGERIA | International Jewish Cemetery Project. https://iajgscemetery.org | JewishGen website online and International Jewish Cemetery Project (IJCP) online site | JewishGen online world wide burial registry | Burial locations are listed with links on IJCP – burial sites are searchable. The data bases provide summary overviews of the cemeteries with further sources |
| ARGENTINA | Findagrave.com | Online data base | Ongoing updated website data base | Searchable data base. Currently 340 burials recorded with almost a quarter photographed. This is the largest Jewish cemetery in South America with 70000 graves- see International Jewish Cemetery Project for information on the cemetery and searchable data base |
| AUSTRALIA | Australian Jewish Historical Society Burials data base. https://www.ajhs.com.au | Online searchable data base | AJHS | The searchable burial data base extends the original Beverley Davis Burial Data collection and currently includes 82000 records. 300 burial sites across Australia are recorded. |
| AUSTRALIA | Rookwood Jewish Cemetery. rookwoodjewishcemetery.com.au | Major searchable data base including burial records with Hebrew and English inscriptions. plot details. photographs. 27000 records online | ||
| AUSTRALIA | When Absence is the Artefact: Unmarked Graves in the Jewish Section Melbourne General Cemetery | Lever.M. research.gate.net A request for a copy of the article should be made to the author via the net link | International Journal of Historical Archaelogy.2009 | The study considers the importance of discovering meaning in archaeological records in the absence of burial markers such as tombstones in Melbourne General Cemetery |
| AUSTRIA | Between Memory and Oblivion-The Jewish Cemeteries in Vienna | Corbett.T | Online article 2016. academia.edu | A short article on the importance and influence of Jewish life in Vienna and the 100000 memorials. The lack of a comprehensive survey and account of the cemeteries and burials is noted. |
| AUSTRIA | International Jewish Cemetery Project-Vienna | Online website | iagscemetery.org | Part of the IAJS World wide cemetery project with the aim of mapping. recording and preserving all Jewish Cemeteries. The site has references to publications on Vienna Jewish Cemeteries and burial grave inscriptions. There are further website links. |
| BARBADOS | Monumental Inscriptions in the Jewish Synagogue at Bridgetown. Barbados: with historical notes from 1630 | Shilstone.E.M. | Macmillan. 1998 | A catalogue of all the monumental inscriptions in Bridgetown. Barbados Jewish cemetery- 248 pages |
| BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo. whc.unesco.org | UNESCO –no author attribution | UNESCO online article.2018 | Description of the cemetery which started in the mid-16th century with an analysis of the tombstones including materials and iconography and a comparison with other cemeteries |
| BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA | The story of the old Jewish Cemetery in Sarajevo. thetogetherplan.com | Levinger-Goy.J.Cambridge | Online- UK Charity focusing on Belarus building a Jewish cultural Heritage Route bringing attention to the forgotten and lot Jewish heritage sites and cemeteries | A personal anecdote on the Sarajevo Old Jewish Cemetery including its devastation and vandalism from1967-2000. The writer states that 95% of the tombstones were damaged and cited failure of the authorities to preserve and protect the cemetery |
| CANADA | Baron de Hirsch Jewish Monument Montreal. Veterans.gc.ca | Government of Canada | Names of 579 Jewish Canadian Armed forces personnel inscriptions | |
| CANADA | Hirsch Community Jewish Cemetery Saskatchewan Cemeteries Project. https://sites.rootsweb.com | Online website | Rootsweb | List of names buried in the cemetery with date of burial and some dob; 4 have photographs of tombstones. 50 burials by 1970; First burial 1888 |
| CANADA | The Cemetery Photography Project of the Genealogical Institute of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada. Ikessler.com/cem/photo.shtml | Kessler.l website Ikessler.com/cem/photo.shtml | The Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada | The project aim was to photograph all the gravestones in the Jewish cemeteries in Manitoba. Photographs were taken 1996 and completed 1997. 15367 photographs were taken in 4 cemeteries in Winnipeg and several smaller cemeteries in the province. The data base is 364 pages and located in several in Western Canada. The photographs are held at the Jewish Heritage Centre Western Canada |
| CARIBBEAN | The successful Caribbean restoration: The Nevis Story | Stern.M. JSTOR online article | American Jewish Historical Quarterly Vol 61.No1 September.1971. University of Pennsylvania Press | The history of the Jews burial ground on the Leeward Island. Nevis. its refurbishment and re-dedication. The cemetery dates from the 17th century. The names of early Jewish inhabitants are recorded |
| CARRIBEAN | Towards the Preservation of Caribbean Jewish Monuments. https://www.jstor.org | Maslin. S.J. | American Jewish Historical Quarterly Vol 58. No 4 (June 1969). The John Hopkins University Press. | The article discusses the loss of important Jewish artefacts and monuments from Caribbean communities and the need to address the losses. It considers critically the lack of interest by many Jewish communities in protecting and preserving the artefacts and tombstones. |
| CHINA | Harbin Jewish Cemetery Zegk.uni-heidelberg.de | History Department Centre for European History and Culture. University of Heidelberg. Herren.M and Canaan Ben.D | The Jewish cemetery started in 1903 but expanded and was re-located in the 1920s.The cemetery was again re-located in 1958 and became part of the Public cemetery. From 3000 graves 853 were removed and transferred to a small site aby by 1963 only 876 graves of which 480 gravestones can be identified. The cemetery has been protected and preserved from the 1990s.However. prior to that date numbers of tombstones were removed and used in buildings and construction. There is a link to a cemetery map | |
| CHINA | Jewish Communities of China: Shanghai’s Lost Foreigner Cemeteries. See also Shanghai. China-Jewish Tombstones in the middle of a Chinese cabbage field. vinnews.com/2011 | YangziMan.2013 | Description of a personal aim to locate the missing foreign cemeteries of Shanghai including the Jewish cemetery. The article confirms confirmation of the location of the cemetery and the discovery of tombstone fragments which were being offered for sale or used buried. | |
| CHINA | Lost Shanghai Jewish Graves. Geni.com/projects See also The Lost Shanghai Jewish Graves article D.Bar-Gal. Shanghaijewishmemorial.com/research_i.htm | No author recorded.Geni.Com | The article describes the project of Dvir Bar-Gal Israeli journalist and his team to identify and preserve tombstones taken from Shanghai Jewish Cemeteries. Numbers of tombstones were removed. broken up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and are scattered in various locations or used in buildings and construction. The project currently lists 86 names from tombstones | |
| CURACAO | Precious stones of the Jews of Curacao:Curacoan Jewry 1656-1957 | Emmanuel.I | Bloch Publishing Company. 1957 | The book describes the 2nd oldest Jewish cemetery in the Americas and the oldest in Curacao with reference to History. Biographies. and Cemeteries. There are 204 biographies and a catalogue of 2500 individuals buried in the cemetery |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | Old Bohemian and Moravian Jewish Cemeteries | Parik.A . Fiedler.J and Ehl.P | Paseka.1997 | List of all Jewish cemeteries in the Czech Republic |
| CZECHOSLOVAKIA | Gardens of Life: Moravian Jewish Cemeteries in photographs | Bretfeldova.H | Albert Knihy. Boskovice. 2018 | Jewish Heritage Europe Bibliography. Online website |
| CZECHOSLOVAKIA | Jewish Cemeteries in Bohemia and Moravia | Herman.J | Council of Jewish Communities in the CSR. Prague 1982 | A catalogue and map of the Jewish Cemeteries in Czechoslovakia |
| CZECHOSLOVAKIA | Prague Jewish Cemeteries | Jewish Museum in Prague.2008 | Parik.A Jewishmuseum.cz/en/e-shop | Comprehensive publication containing 211 colour photographs on early tombstones. Focus on the Old Jewish Cemeteries in Josefor. Zizkov. New Jewish cemetery. Cemetery maps showing location of graves. Jewish burial ceremonies and customs are included |
| DENMARK | Mosaic Burials and Tombstones until 1886 | Margolinsky.J | Copenhagen 1978 | 10 Jewish cemeteries recorded. The majority of burials in Mollegrade. Denmark. Data taken originally from Jewish deaths in Denmark 1693-1876 with later corrections and updates |
| EGYPT | Egypt Cemeteries-Alexandria. Chatby 1. Chatby 2. Chatby 3.Cairo: Bassatine. Mosseri Enclosure. | No details of author | No details of publisher | Lists of names and dates on tombstones. Copied 1996-2000. Held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library |
| ETHIOPIA | Aden in Days of Empire-Jewish Cemeteries. peterpickering.wixsite.com/aden | Pickering.P. Jefferson. I and others | Pickering. Jefferson et al. 2022 | A short article describing the Jews in Ethiopia (today known as Eritrea). Reference to the Synagogue closed in 1975 and the cemetery with 150 burials |
| ETHIOPIA | JewishGen https://www.jewishgen.org | JOWBR Cemetery inventory | JewishGen | Inventory online. 2 cemeteries. 4 burials noted |
| ETHIOPIA | The Bright Blue Graves of Safed Cemetery. Kabbalah mystics lie beneath | Ginat.G | Atlasobscuria.com 2020 | Online article with photographs. Description of the world famous Kabbalah cemetery and the mapping of gravestones |
| ETHIOPIA | The Falashas. A short History of the Ethiopian Jews | Kessler.D | 3rd Edition. 1996 Frank Cass. London | The book describes the source of the communities and traces it to the Jewish settlements in ancient Egypt and what is now Sudan |
| ETHIOPIA | The Stories Gravestones Tell-The Ferenji Cemetery at Gulele.Addis Ababa. anglo-ethiopian.org | Agstner.R | The Anglo Ethiopian Society.2008 | The article describes initial research into the cemeteries in Gulele with reference to a small number of Jews recorded in the 1930s but not noted in the cemeteries currently referred to. |
| ETHIOPIA | Yemenite Jewish Cemetery. Addis Ababa. -jewishphotolibrary.smugmug.com | Jono. D | HaCkayim Photo Library 2015 | Large number of photographs including tombstones and the cemetery |
| EUROPE | Houses of Life. Jewish Cemeteries of Europe | Joachim Jacobs | Author Beyer.H.D. Frances Lincoln. (1st Edition) 2008 | The story of Jewish cemeteries from Medieval to present. maps. illustrations. paintings. drawings |
| FRANCE | Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux. sephardicgenealogy.com/jews-of-bordeaux/ | Sephardic Jewish Genealogy website | with reference to digitised links to birth. circumcision. marriages and burial records of the Portuguese Jewish community of Bordeaux | |
| FRANCE | Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux with reference to digitised links to birth. circumcision. marriages and burial records of the Portuguese Jewish community of Bordeaux. https://sephardicgenealogy.com | Online website | Sephardic Jewish Genealogy website | with reference to digitised links to birth. circumcision. marriages and burial records of the Portuguese Jewish community of Bordeaux |
| FRANCE | To whom do the dead belong? The Jewish cemetery at the Hotel-Dieu in Lyon. France. https://www.manchesteropenhive.com | Gerstenenkorn.J | Human Remains and Violence Vol 3. No 1 (2017). Manchester University Press Univsite Lumiere Lyon 2 Manchesteropenhive.com | A discussion on the conflict surrounding the discovery in 2015 of 18th Century Jewish graves in the Catholic Hospital Hotel-Dieu.Pre-Revolution Jews were prohibited from burying their dead in their own cemeteries. Bodies were buried in the basement of the Catholic Hospital and discovered when the hospital was converted into a retail complex. The issue of what should happen to the bodies and fragments of bodies created significant disputes among various involved local parties including descendants. local community. Jewish religious leaders and others. |
| GENERAL | A collection of Jewish records including photographs of tombstones and cemeteries from around the world. https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu | Online data base | Jewish Data Com | A subscription is required for further data but an initial surname search is available |
| GENERAL | A field guide to visiting a Jewish cemetery; A spiritual journey to the past | Segal.J | Jewish Cemetery Publishing. 2005 | Guidance on the historic. cultural and religious context of Jewish cemeteries and burial customs |
| GENERAL | A Practical Guide to Jewish Cemeteries | Menachemson.N | Bergenfield.NJ: Avotaynu.2007 | The book includes the history of Jewish burials. how to read inscriptions. famous Jewish cemeteries. burial locations. famous Jews burials. location of Nazi concentration camps. preserving and protecting Jewish cemeteries |
| GENERAL | A searchable data base of Jewish Memorial plaques from synagogues and memorials world wide. https://jewishgen.org | Online searchable data base | Jewish Gen Memorial Plaques Data base | 225000 Yahrtzeit Plaques/records with 15000 photos from 417 synagogues. institutions and memorials in 41 countries. Searchable by surname. |
| GENERAL | Bibliography of publications on Jewish Sepulchral Monuments. https://genealogy.org.il | Online bibliography | Graffiti website 2022 | A list of 60 sources written in English and other languages |
| GENERAL | Charitable like Abigail: The history of an epitaph. muse.jhu | Baumgarten. FJSTOR online article | The Jewish Quarterly Review Vol 105. No 3 ( Summer 2015). University of Pennsylvania Press | The article examines the epitaph of Abigail a Jewish woman and the extent to which the role of women in charitable actions and activities are recognised within a cultural and historic contexts. |
| GENERAL | Death in Jewish Life. Burial and Mourning Customs among Jews of Europe and Nearby communities | Reif.S. Lehnardt.A. Levar-Bar.A With numbers of other contributors-Online article 2014 | Online article Walter de Gruyter GmbH.Berlin/Boston | A series of essays by numbers of contributors describing and analysing the Jewish burial and mourning customs in Europe and close communities ( 400 pages) |
| GENERAL | Deciphering Jewish Gravestones. bloodandfrogs.com/2020 | Online downloadable PDF. | B and F:Jewish Genealogy and more.2020 | The article is detailed and focuses on explaining the meaning of iconography on Jewish gravestones. A bibliography containing a selection of books on Jewish tombstones and other sources |
| GENERAL | Eastern Europe Jewish Tombstones | Wodinski.M Online article | The Yivo Encyclopaedia of Jews in eastern Europe | The historical context of Eastern European Jewish tombstones including materials used iconography. epitaphs. and changes in design. Some photographs included and suggested reading |
| GENERAL | EPIDAT-The Database of Jewish Epigraphy. steinheim-institut.de/egi-bin/epidat | Online searchable data base | The project is part of the collaboration between Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute. Essen and the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Mainz | Searchable data base of 244 digital editions with 44455 tombstones from 1050-1945-1952 |
| GENERAL | EU Project. Preparatory action protecting the Jewish cemeteries of Europe; fostering stake holders involvement and awareness raising. https://culture.ec.europa.eu | EU Project online | European Commission 19 April. 2021 | Proposals for partnership work and funding to establish pilot work involving local communities. educational institutions. cultural and creative sectors with a focus on preserving Jewish burial sites |
| GENERAL | European Jewish cemeteries initiative. https://www.esjf-cemeteries.org | ESJF Projects Ongoing project | Online | The development of a major data base of European cemeteries and mass graves established 2006. Currently 11061 cemeteries on the data base. Focus on protecting and preserving the burial grounds and tombstones in every European Jewish cemetery |
| GENERAL | Graven Images: Graphic motifs of the Jewish Gravestones | Schwatzman.A | Harry N Abrams.Inc 1993 | Colour photographs of Jewish tombstones in 38 -200 graves-144 pages. The importance of iconography is discussed |
| GENERAL | Guide to Jewish Cemetery –Elements. prohibitions and how to conduct a visit | Ctbi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016 | CBTBI.org 2016 | Description of Jewish burial tradition. iconography. law and custom ( 37 pages) |
| GENERAL | House of Life: Jewish Cemeteries of Europe. https://housesoflife.com | J Jacobs | Online searchable data base Francis Lincoln Publishing Group. 2008 | 30 plus Jewish cemeteries in Europe covering a two thousand year period. Includes photographs. plans. maps. photographs. drawings. Customs. gravestone design and cultural. spiritual values are considered |
| GENERAL | Houses of Life: Cemeteries of Europe | Jacobs.J and Berger.H.D ( photographer) | International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. Avotaynu 2008 | 30 cemeteries were studied covering 2000years of history. Jewish funeral rites and customs are described. |
| GENERAL | It’s Carved in Stone. https://www.academia_edu | Isenberg.M | 2010 | Free download PDF 35 full PDFs relate to this paper. Description of an ongoing research project since 2004 in the Spis region of Poland examining over 20 cemeteries and 3200 tombstones. Vital records and other data was incorporated in the research |
| GENERAL | Jewish Atlantic World. https://cdm.reed.edu/c/jewishatl/home | Reed Collection online data base | Photographs of 3059 gravestones in 27 locations world wide | |
| GENERAL | Jewish Burial Grounds-Understanding Values. eurojewishstudies.org | Langham.B. Online article | English Heritage Report. 2015 | Online research paper (34 pages). Aims and research questions are listed with a background to Jewish burial practices and their cultural and historic importance. Case studies include Sandymount Glasgow. Penzance. Novo |
| GENERAL | Jewish Cemeteries in the classroom. issuu.com/esjf/docs/jewish_cemeteries_in_the_classroom | Seidel.T; Vonnak.D; Carmel.P ; Fishel.A (Ed) | ESJF Guide.2020. Online | 84 page coloured guide. The focus of the guide is to present the Jewish Cemetery as a fundamental resource in the research of the local Jewish community and its cultural and historic importance |
| GENERAL | Jewish cemeteries photographic library | HaChayim HaYeHudim Jewish Photo Library | Jewishphotolibrary.com/cemeteries | Worldwide Cemeteries are organised alphabetically by country and territory. The cemeteries have photographs of tombstones |
| GENERAL | Jewish Cemeteries-An Annotated Bibliography based on the collection of The NATIONAL Library and the library of the Ben Zvi Institute. https://genealogy.org.il | Online bibliography | Israel Genealogy Research Association. Jerusalem 2014 | Updated bibliography from the original 1997 edition. The 2004 Bibliography has 244 entries covering the period from the 19th Century to present. The list includes sources from 39 countries and ca 95000 tombstones and ca 500 cemeteries. The books are written mainly in German. English. Polish. French with 27 other languages |
| GENERAL | Last Landscapes. The Architecture of the cemetery in the West | Worple.K | University of Chicago Press | 224 pages. 129 colour plates. A study of the various methods of burial across Europe and North America and the effect that cremation has upon cemetery design and the absence of plots. The destruction of cemeteries and the loss of tombstones is also examined |
| GENERAL | Letters in the Dust-The epigraphy.archaelogy and conversation of Medieval Jewish cemeteries. https://www.eurojewishstudies.org | A series of online papers for the European Association for Jewish Studies. Organisers Rutgers.L.V. and Saar-Paz.O | EAJS Conference2017 | A series of papers and workshop presentations on Medieval Jewish cemeteries including their iconography and archaeology |
| GENERAL | Medieval Hebrew Inscriptions. Towards a European Data Base | Wilke. C.L. Academia.edu. online article | Jewish Studies at the Central European University 7. 2009-2011 ( 2013) pp147-172 | A research paper which considers the desecration and looting of Jewish cemeteries during Medieval times and the importance of identifying. recording. protecting and preserving tombstones and inscriptions in a codified and consolidated manner |
| GENERAL | Medieval Hebrew Inscriptions: Towards a European Database | Wilke.C.L. | Online article 2011 Jewishstudies.ceu.edu | This article cites numerous examples of the destruction of Jewish memorial stones in Europe |
| GENERAL | Metropolitan Jewish Cemeteries of the 19th and 20th centuries in Central and Eastern Europe. A comparative study | Klein.R | Michael Imhof Verlag.2019 | A major comprehensive study and analysis of Jewish cemeteries and burials in Eastern and Central Europe. The work includes architecture. customs. history. religion. iconography among other factors |
| GENERAL | Metropolitan Jewish Cemeteries of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Central and Eastern Europe: A comparative study | Klein.R | ICOMOS-Journal of the German National Committee and Landesden Kmalamrt. Berlin. Michael Imhof Verlag.2018 | Sample of 20 urban Jewish cemeteries in large central and eastern European countries ( not the Ukraine) |
| GENERAL | Odessa secrets: the 1905 progrom. Cemetery Portraits | Odessasecrets.wordpress.com | There is no name of the writer of the blog site and there are other comments. The blog appears to date from 2015 | The blog forms the research into the Odessa Pogrom 1905 and the lives of those who lived and died during the period. The site includes photographs of Odessa Jewish tombstones but also that of cemeteries and tombstones in USA. Stalingrad. Poland. Photographs include a narrative. There is a list of names and further links to other sources including family portraits and details of individuals and families in Odessa |
| GENERAL | Printed books on cemeteries of Sephardic communities among the collection of the Jewish National and University Library and The Ben Zvi Institute Library Institute Library Jerusalem. https://www.sephardicstudies.org | Online bibliography Compiled by Tagger.M No date of article | Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture Sephardicstudies.org Online bibliography | An annotated bibliography arranged by alphabetical country order (18 countries); 5 pages |
| GENERAL | The Complete Visual Guide to Jewish Headstones. https://cousins.com | Landes.H | 2018 Online –requires a subscription.cousinist.com | Includes the meaning of iconography on the tombstones and translations of dates and other symbols |
| GENERAL | The First Sephardic Cemeteries in South America and in the West Indies. https://www.jstor.com | Bohm.G. JSTOR on line article | Studia Rosenthaliana.Vol 25.No 1.1991 | The early arrival of Jews in Recife. Pernambuco and the establishment of communities including the burial ground in the 1630s. The effect of the Inquisition and the persecution of Jews leading to their leaving Brazil after 1654. The Hunt’s Bay Jewish cemetery and the oldest grave 1672 among other research |
| GENERAL | The funeral and Cemetery Handbook | Weinberger.D | Mesorah Publications Limited.2003 | Discusses Jewish funeral and burial rites and customs |
| GENERAL | The Heritage Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries (HFPJC). https://hfpjc.com | Online Project | Online website which includes updates and project information Brooklyn. New York Headquarters | Website founded 2002 with the aim of restoring hundreds of Jewish cemeteries and thousands of gravestones across Europe Details of restored and preserved cemeteries and tombstones are recorded. |
| GENERAL | The Jewish Cemeteries in the euregiorhtein-maas-nord | Steinheim-institute.de | 2007-2008 | Cemeteries in the eurogio-rhein-maas-nord (not previously published) were recorded. documented and edited. Biographical information. where possible. was added |
| GENERAL | The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning | Lamm.M Rabbi | Jonathan David Publishers. 2000 | An update on the earlier 1972 publication. A detailed consideration of the Jewish burial and mourning customs-336 pages |
| GENERAL | Urban Jewish Cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe | Gadowske.I | Wydawnictwo Hamal.Andrzej Machejek.2016 | 193 pages. illustrations. bibliographical references |
| GENERAL | We Are Where We are Not; The Cemetery in Jewish Culture | Bar –Levav.A | World Union of Jewish Studies. 2002. JSTOR online article | Historical and phenomenological study of Jewish cemeteries as institutions and in Jewish culture and society |
| GENERAL | Wooden Tombstones from Jewish Cemeteries in Eastern Europe | Wisniewski.T. 2008. | Jewishmag.com | The article is part of the book A History of Lost Shtetl Cemeteries. Historic description of the wooden tombstones first erected in the 18th Century and later tomstones in Poland. Early black and white photographs of tombstones with some of inscriptions recorded. There are links to other sites |
| GERMANY | Berlin’s Oldest Jewish Cemetery | Lee.H –foteins blog | 2013 Blog article | Brief description and history of Der Judishe Friedhof Grosse Hamburger Strasse. The article includes the deportation and murder of 55000 Berlin Jews. There are photographs of the cemetery and some tombstones including those of Moses Mendelssohn |
| GERMANY | De Mortuis Nil Nisi Hebraice. The Language of Tombstone Inscriptions in Nineteenth Century Germany. https://www.jstor.com | Brocke.M and Muller.C.E. | Studia Rosenthaliana Vol 36. 2002-2003 Peeters Publishers JSTOR online article requires registration | The article describes the evolvement of Jewish tombstone inscriptions and iconography particularly the language used from Greek. Latin to Hebrew |
| GERMANY | Jacob Jacobson Collection. https://archives.cjh.org | Jacob Jacobson Collection | Center for Jewish History. Part of the Leo Baeck Institute Repository New York Center for Jewish History | The collection was assembled in Berlin and removed by Jacobson’s wife and child when they immigrated to England in 1939. The collection consists of records of several Jewish Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities including Berlin. Altona. Hamburg. Wandsbek.Birth. marriage. death records. and grave stone inscriptions are included. |
| GERMANY | Jewish Cemetery Weissensee. https://www.tracesofwar.com | Traces of War website. Online article | Prenger.K. 2016 | The article provides an important description of the cemetery pre WW2. during the war and post war. The effects on the community and individuals are described. There some photographs depicting the cemetery. including a map |
| GERMANY | Jewish monuments of the Middle Ages in Germany: One hundred and ten tombstone inscription from Speyer. Cologne. Nuremberg and Worms ( 1085c-1428). https://www.jstor.com | JSTOR online article | American Academy for Jewish Research Vol 14.1944 | An introduction to the Jewish tombs and tombstones for Speyer. Cologne. Nuremberg and Worms including inscriptions and their importance |
| GERMANY | Sephardic epitaphs in Hamburg’s oldest Jewish cemetery: Poetry. riddles and eccentric texts. https://www.jstor.com | Sarraga. M and F.S. JSTOR online article | AJS Review Vol 26.No1 ((April.2002). Cambridge University Press | Research began in 1986 investigating the Altona Cemetery. Hamburg recording and analysing epitaphic texts. At the time. almost 1650 epitaphs were recorded. The research focus was on 17th century epitaphs. |
| GERMANY | The Jewish Cemeteries in Brandenburg | Online project. Publishup.uni-potsdam.de | Spurensuche auf dem Judischen Friedhof Potsdam: Einetlandreichun. University.2016 | 58 pages ( download) German grave design.history.monument preservation. teaching material |
| GERMANY | The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Koniogstrasse. Sephardic Sepulchral Culture of the 17th and 18th century between Europe and the Caribbean. https://whc.unesco.org | No named author | UNESCO 2015 online article | Description of the cemetery and its historical and cultural context; 1-5 pages. The cemetery contains 1600 tombstones dating from 17th-18th centuries |
| GREECE | Bodies Visible and Invisible: The Erasure of the Jewish Cemetery in the Life of Modern Thessalonica | Hesse.C and Laquer. T.W. | Cambridge University Press. 2018 | The story of the destruction of the Thessalonica Cemetery and tombstones in 1943. The role of the Greeks and Germans in the destruction is discussed. |
| GREECE | Kol ha KEHILA. nli.org.il/en/journals | The Newsletter of the Jewish Monuments of Greece | Reference to books and tombstones in various cemeteries across Greece | |
| GREECE | Rhodes Jewish Museum. Jewish burial headstones and burial records. https://www.rhodesjewishmuseum.org | Online searchable data base | Rhodes Jewish Museum | Searchable data base (2004) of Jewish burials between 1840s-1940s in Rhodes Jewish Cemetery. The data base enables searches of first and last names. family. Row. Plot with a link to photographs of individual tombstones |
| GREECE | The Jewish Cemetery of Salonika in the Cross roads of Urban Modernisation and Anti-Semitism. https://www.jstor.com | Vassiliku.M. JSTOR online article | European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe Vol 33.No 1 ( Spring 2000).Berghahn Books | The article discusses the destruction of the Sephardic cemetery by the Germans in WW2 and earlier moves by the Greek authorities to expropriate the burial area for development. The tombstones were either destroyed or re-used for houses and road building |
| GREECE | The Living and the dead: The story of Hebrew Inscriptions in Crete | Ankori.Z JSTOR online article | Academy for Jewish Research Vol 38/39 (1970-71) | The destruction of Jewish landmarks and Jewish community during WW2 and a critical review of the original research of Giuseppe Gerola. The original research looked at Jewish monuments. inscriptions. synagogue grounds (Photographs and plans are included) subsequently destroyed. |
| HUNGARY | Friends of Budapest Jewish Cemetery.Kozma Street. https://www.budapestjewishcemetery.com | Online searchable data base and description of the project with updates | Friends of Budapest Jewish Cemetery Project | The cemetery was established in 1891. Photographs of tombstones and memorial inscriptions. Searchable data. There are 300000 burials in 175000 graves. The project is to clear and protect the cemetery. |
| INDIA | Buried in Bangalore. www.adamyamey.com | Yamey. A.R. Blurb books | Yarmey.A.R..2010 | Photographic album of the Jewish cemetery in Bangalore. All 50 tombstones with inscriptions are photographed |
| INDIA | Calcutta Jewish Cemetery. www.jgsgb.org.uk | Online searchable data base. Compiled by Tagger.M | SephardicGen online website | Searchable data base of burials including 3144 names; 49% men and 51% women. |
| INDIA | International Jewish Cemetery Project. https://iajgscemetery.org | JewishGen website online | JewishGen Online world wide burial registry | A searchable list of 60 cemeteries with brief descriptions. 711 burials and 812 photographs currently recorded. Linked to Jewish Cemetery Project. |
| IRAN | Beheshtieh and Giliard Jewish Cemeteries | Beheshtieh.com Online website including updates | Original photographs taken 2003 Farzan.S | Numerous close up photographs of individual tombstones from Beheshtieh. Tehran and Giliard. Damavand. The tombstones inscriptions are very visible. This is an ongoing project to add other cemeteries and to raise awareness regarding their preservation |
| IRELAND | 5618 and all that. The Jewish cemetery at Fairview Strand. https://www.jstor.com | Hiney.D.G. | Dublin Historical Record Vol 50. No 2 ( Autumn 1997) Old Dublin Society. JSTOR online article | The Jewish settlement in Fairview. Ballybough and the lease in 1718 on behalf of the Ashkenazim of a plot of land for the burial ground of Dublin Jews. The names of some of the Jews buried are noted |
| IRELAND | 5618 and all that. The Jewish cemetery at Fairview Strand. https://www.jstor.com | Hiney. D.G. JSTOR online article | Dublin Historical Record Vol 50. No 2 ( Autumn 1997) Old Dublin Society | The Jewish settlement in Fairview. Ballybough and the lease in 1718 on behalf of the Ashkenazim of a plot of land for the burial ground of Dublin Jews. The names of some of the Jews buried are noted |
| IRELAND | Dublin Ballybough Cemetery. https://patrickcomerford.com | Comerford.P. Online article | Online 2019 | Description of the origins of the cemetery leased in 1717 and its later development. There are almost 150 burials. headstones and about 200 graves |
| IRELAND | The Jewish Cemetery at Ballybough in Dublin | Shillman.B and Wolf.L | Jewish Historical Society of England Vol 11 91924-1927) JSTOR online article | A lecture read to the Jewish Historical Society of England July. 1925. The lecture included research into the origins of the cemetery including its origins of its lease possibly in 1718 and a later lease in 1748 |
| IRELAND MAJOR DATA BASE | Irish Jewish Burial records. https://www.irishjewishroots.com | Stuart Rosenblatt Publication. | Irish Jewish Genealogical Society | There are a series of searchable data bases with thousands of records. These include: Irish Jewish Memorial Inscriptions. Dolphin Barn. Dublin 1898-2003 (2004 publication); Irish Jewish Memorial Inscriptions Ballybough.Dublin 1748-1908 ( 2004 publication); Belfast Irish Jewish Memorial 1873-2003 ( 2004 publication); The Hebrews of Limerick 1904 ( 2005 publication); Irish Gardens of the Dead 1748-2006 ( 2007 publication; Dublin. Belfast. Cork and Limerick cemeteries burials combined data; Heritage. the DNA of Irish Jewry ( 2008) publications-61777 records including births. marriages. burial |
| ISRAEL | ANU Museum-Museum of the Jewish People. https://www.anumuseum.org.il | Tel Aviv. Israel | Ongoing website | The ANU Museum-Museum of the Jewish people has major data bases including family trees. cemeteries. These are being updated. This is the significant museum for the Jewish people. |
| ISRAEL | Aramaic Tombstones from Zoar and Jewish conceptions of the after life | Wilfand.Y | Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian. Hellenistic and Roman Period. Vol 40.N0 4/5 (2009). Brill Publisher | A study of 30 epitaphs discovered near the Dead Sea and the exploration of afterlife concepts within the Jewish community of Zoar |
| ISRAEL | Modernisation and the Zionist Uncanny: Reading the Old Cemetery in Tel Aviv | Mann.B | N0 69 Special Issue: Grounds for Remembering (Winter 2000) University California Press | The article discusses the important role of the Old cemetery in Tel Aviv cemetery in Jewish memory and historic identify |
| ISRAEL | Mount Herzl: The Creation of Israel’s National Cemetery | Azaryyahu.M. JSTOR online article | Israel Studies Vol 1.No2. 1996. Indiana University Press | The role of the founding fathers in the history of the cemetery including its design. cultural. religious and national importance |
| ITALY | A project to publish a complete corpus of the epitaphs preserved in Italian Jewish cemeteries of the Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries | Perani.M. | De Gruyters.2018 | Online article 48 pages. The historical context of the tombstones including photographs is described. |
| ITALY | Renaissance in the Graveyard: The Hebrew Tombstones of Padua and Ashkenazic Acculturation in Sixteenth Century Italy | Malkiel. D | AJS Review 37-2 (November 2013) Cambridge University Press | In 1509 the Jewish cemeteries in Padua were destroyed. Four cemeteries remained with 1200 inscriptions by 1860. The article explores the changing iconography of tombstone design influenced by the Italian Renaissance |
| ITALY | Stories speak-Hebrew Tombstones from Padua 1529-1862 | Malkiel.D | E Book pdf Studies in Jewish History and Culture Vol 43. 2014 Publisher. Brill | Description of tombstone inscriptions and the influence of cultural and social changes on tombstone design and language |
| ITALY | The Corpus Epitaphiorum Hebraicorum Italie (CEHI): A project to Publish a complete Corpus of the Epitaphs Preserved in Italian Jewish Cemeteries of the Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries | Perani.M | The article is selected from Death in Jewish Life: Burial and Mourning Customs among Jews of Europe and Nearby Communities. Reif.S.C. Lehnardt. Bar-Levar.A. De Gruyter. 2014 | The project purpose is to publish full research papers and inscriptions relating to Italian Jewish Tombstones and epitaphs. A planned website to present the content of each volume and the facility to search for names |
| ITALY | The Jews in Southern Italy. https://www.jstor.com | Adler. H.M. JSTOR online article | The Jewish Quarterly Review. October 1901 Vol 14.No 1 pp 111-115 | A description of Jewish tombstone inscriptions in the Museum at Taranto. Thetombstones are early and include Greek and Latin inscriptions |
| ITALY | Western Europe Vol 1. Italy (excluding the City of Rome). Spain and Gaul.Vol 2 The City of Rome | Noy.D | Cambridge University Press. 1995 | A discussion on the early Jewish tombstone inscriptions which reveal information on the communities. biblical and religious texts not previously considered |
| JAMAICA | Beth Haim Bridgetown Cemetery. https://jewishphotolibrary.smugmug.com | The Ha Chayim Ha Yehudim Jewish photo library | Photographs of Bridgetown’s Beth Haim Cemetery | |
| JAMAICA | Jamaican Family search Genealogy. A record of Jews in Jamaica. https://jamaicafamilysearch.com | Andrada.A.P.M. | Online publication. 2013 | The publication includes a partial list of internments in various cemeteries |
| JAMAICA | Jews of Jamaica Tombstone Inscriptions 1663-1880 | Barnett.R and Wright.P | O.Yaff ( ed).1997 | The life of Jewish settlers in Jamaica is examined from their tombstone inscriptions and used to emphasise the effects of cultural and historical changes on the community and individuals |
| JAMAICA | Monumental Inscriptions in the Burial Ground of the Jewish Synagogue at Bridgetown. Barbados | Shilstone.E.M. | American Historical Society New York.1956 | Eustace Maxwell Shilstone. Barbadian lawyer transcribed during the 1930s the Jewish tombstone inscriptions in the Jewish cemetery Barbados. The inscriptions were published in 1956. The book has 205 pages including 374 epitaphs in Hebrew with English translations from 473 tombstones |
| JAMAICA | The Hunt’s Bay Jewish Cemetery . Kingston Jamaica. British West Indies. https://www.jstor.com | Silverman. H.P. JSTOR online article. | American Jewish Historical Society No.37. 1947 | Description of Hunt’s Bay Jewish Cemetery established during the 1650sand its later neglect and repair. The names of 47 individuals are recorded with their inscriptions. The last burial in 1819. |
| JAMAICA | The Hunt’s Bay Jewish Cemetery.Kingston.Jamaica.West Indies. https://www.jstor.com | Silverman.H.P. | American Jewish Historical Society No 37.(1947). The John Hopkins Press (JSTOR online article readable by registration) | 18 pages. A history and description of the oldest Jewish cemetery in Jamaica |
| LIBYA | Libya’s Jewish graveyards were destroyed. They are being built online. jta.org/2021 | Liptshitz. C | Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 2021 In co-operation with the ANU: The Museum of the Jewish People | The development of a project to establish a virtual cemetery. The original Libyan Jewish cemeteries were destroyed in Tripoli and Benghazi. In the case of Tripoli a main road and multi storey building have been constructed on the site of the Jewish cemetery. By 2004 there were no Jews living in Libya. The article explains the causes of the destruction of Jewish cemeteries. synagogues and communities. |
| LITHUANIA | Birzai Jewishgen shtetl. eilatgordinlevitan.com/birz | This site provides links to other regions and data | Early photographs of inhabitants of Birzai with additional photographs of some descendants. memorials and other records | |
| LITHUANIA | Jews on the Map of Lithuania: the case of Birzai: Preserving Jewish heritage and historical memory | Kopchen.I | Moskva:Sefer.2015 | Written in Russian. In 1941. 2400 men. women and children were murdered by Nazi soldiers and Lithuanian officers and their bodies buried in ditches. More than 90% of Birzai Jews were murdered. |
| LITHUANIA | The Birzai/Birzh Memorial Project. Lithuania. https://www.sajbd.org | Bellin.V and Levitt.G. Online article | SAJBD.2019 | An account in 2019 of the unveiling of anew memorial for the victims of the massacre near Birzai. Lithuania with photographs |
| LITHUANIA | The Memorial book for the Jewish Community of Yurburg.Lithuania:Translation and Update | Poran.Z | 3rd edition revised.2019. Friends of Yurberg Jewish Cemetery Inc. | The revised edition contains accounts from survivors and emigres of the Shoah and its impact upon themselves and the Yuburg community.300 identifiable headstones are recorded among numerous photographs |
| LITHUANIA MAJOR DATA BASE | Lithuanian Jewish Records 1795-1945. https://www.litvaksig.org | Litvak SIG | MyHeritage | Litvak SIG donated several million Lithuanian records covering a period from the late 18th century to the end of WW2. The data includes Auchwitz Death Certificates 1941-1943-65280 records |
| MAJOR DATABASE | International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS). https://www.iajgs.org | IAJGS Online | IAJGS current | International Jewish Cemetery Project purpose to catalogue every Jewish burial site worldwide. An ongoing project worldwide with data being updated. The data base has information on every current Jewish cemetery world wide. The data base is searchable by cemeteries and has links to other sources. Reference should also be made to the JOWBR site which contains several million records on individual burials searchable by name. |
| MAJOR DATABASE | International Jewish Cemetery Project. | JewishGen website online | Jewish Gen online world wide burial registry (JOWBR) | Cemetery Inventory of Jewish cemeteries. burials and photographs of each country world-wide. This is a major website with the aim of identifying. recording and preserving Jewish cemeteries. burial sites and tombstones world-wide. The site provides links to each country with further information including the date of recorded citation. The records are being updated over time. |
| UK MAJOR DATABASE | Cemetery Scribes. www.cemeteryscribes.com | Online | G. Laws | A major data with thousands of burial and tombstone records including photographs. mini family histories. data on individual burials. cemetery history relating to UK and international Jewish cemeteries. These records are regularly updated and the Blog contains a range of information including short biographies on individuals. cemetery research. tombstone typography among other data. |
| MALTA | The Jewish Cemetery at Kalkara. Malta https://www.jstor.com | Davis.D | Jewish Historical Society of England Vol 28.(1981-82) JSTOR online article | Description. History. plans and photographs of the Kalkara Jewish Cemetery. The oldest Jewish burial ground in Malta (1748). Various individuals are named from population registers. graves and inscriptions |
| MOROCCO | Tetuan Jewish Cemetery. Cemeteriojudiotetuan.org | Online searchable data base managed by Amran. Benatar. S | Searchable data base with photographs of individual tombstones in alphabetical last name order (178 pages) including death date. Only 1500 tombstones survive from many thousands of burials over 500 years. The site contains other information including photographs of Jewish notables. | |
| NETHERLANDS | Beth Haim Cemetery Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. Netherlands. https://bethhaim.nl | Online website | Portuguese Jewish Cemetery with grave monuments from 1614 (28000 graves). On Findagrave there are currently 193 records searchable by surname | |
| NETHERLANDS | Data base 1806-1861. List of Burials at Zeeburgh and Muiderberg (Ashkenazi) and Ouderkerk ( Sephardi) | Verdooner.D and Snel.H | No details of date of publication or publisher | Data base held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Library. No details given in library index of publications |
| NETHERLANDS | Jewish Cemeteries in the surroundings of Amsterdam. Burial Register of Muierberg. https://www.jstor.com | Kroger.J Online JSTOR article | Studia Rosenethaliana Vol 23.1989 | The article considers the oldest burial register written in Yiddish. Hebrew and Aramaic dating from 1669-1811 containing 11000 burials |
| NETHERLANDS | Jews. Cemeteries. and the City of Antwerp. qoud.lib.umich.edu | Daelen.V.V (undated) | qoud.lib.umich.edu | A short (2 pages) which considers the effects of boundaries. borders and other aspects on Jewish burial. Issues such as the payment for cemetery plots including rental and perpetuity are discussed |
| NETHERLANDS | The Burial Books of Muiderberg 1669-1812 | Straten Van.J | Joodse Historische Bronnen.2000 | The cemetery was established in 1642 by the Ashkenazi community. The total number of individuals buried in the cemetery is 10950 including 2550 children |
| NETHERLANDS | The Burial books of Zeeburg 1714-1811 | Straten Van.J | Joodse Historische Bronnen.1997 | The book is held by the Jewish Genealogical Society Great Britain library. 433 pages –Index of names and burials |
| NETHERLANDS | The Burial Register of the Jewish Cemetery at Muiderberg as a source of biographical. demographical and socio historical information. https://www.jstor.com | Kroger.J. Online article | Studia Rosenthaliana Vol 23 (1989). Peeters Publishers. JSTOR online article | Jewish cemeteries in the surroundings of Amsterdam |
| NETHERLANDS | Zeeburg Jewish Cemetery. https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu | Jewish Heritage Europe online links to articles with photographs of tombstones and the cemetery | Jewish Heritage Europe | Detailed articles including cemetery map and analysis of burials. The Ashkenazi cemetery was established in 1714 and continued until 1942 with almost 100000 burials |
| POLAND | A tribe of stones. Jewish cemeteries in Poland | Scharf.R and Krajewska.M | Warsaw Polish Scientific Publishers. 1993 | Photographs. text. tombstone rubbings and selection of mottoes |
| POLAND | A walk through alluring history of symbolism at the Okopowa Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. https://awomanafoot.com | Online blog | 2017 | Photographs of tombstone images with comments and the names of famous people buried with links to Wikipedia. The iconography of tombstones is discussed. |
| POLAND | Among the Monuments of The New Jewish Cemetery in Lodz. Reference to Ancient Egypt and Near East | Lachmayer.A | Studies in Ancient Art and Civilisation 12. Krakow.2008 | Online article with b/w photographs. The cemetery was started 1893-1896 with destruction of 500 tombstones WW1. There are now 180-20000 tombstones remaining from some 240000 |
| POLAND | Bagnowka: A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale | Szpek.H.M. | Bloomington.IN: I Universe.2016 | The cemetery was destroyed during and post WW2 and later restored. The effects of major changes in Eastern Europe on the design and culture of the cemetery and tombstones is discussed. |
| POLAND | Documentation of the Jewish Cemeteries in Cracow | Yaari.B.Haber.L. Udi.T (eds) | Hotzaat teud Batei Almin. 2004 | Records of Cracow Jewish cemeteries.271 pages |
| POLAND | Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland. https://jri-poland.org | Online data base | Jewish Records Indexing (JRI) | Continuing research project with alphabetical list of almost 100000 burials; searchable cemeteries with recorded names.sex.Hebrew name. father’s name. husband’s name. maiden name dob. date of death and additional information |
| POLAND | Fragments: Jewish Cemeteries: In search of Lost Time | Lidwin.J | Oscar Riera Ojeda. 2022 | Photographs of Jewish cemetery locations destroyed during the Holocaust in the Polish region of Siesia and Malopolska |
| POLAND | Jewish Cemeteries; Old and New Cemetery Prague. synagogue.cz | Jewish Community of Prague | Online site | Summary of the Jewish Old and New Cemeteries in Prague from their origins to the present |
| POLAND | Jewish Cemetery in Lodz. Lodz-ghetto.com | Litzmannstadt Getto online website | The website provides an overview of the history of the cemetery established in 1892 and the murders of Jews and other groups by Germans in WW2 and their burial in the cemetery and nearby locations. The cemetery is the largest in Europe with some 230000 burials. | |
| POLAND | Lesko Jewish Cemetery. Poland. Riowang.blogspot.com | Lesko Jewish Cemetery Project | The cemetery was largely destroyed in 1942 but 2000 tombstones remain. Photographs of tombstones with descriptions on some include iconography. See also Jewish Heritage Project The Old Jewish Cemetery at Lesko; a poem and photos; International Jewish Cemetery. Project with photograph links and history | |
| POLAND | Liepaja Jewish Cemetery burials.1909-1941 Liepajajews.org | Online searchable website | website | Alphabetical surname search of Cemetery books. Photographs of the cemetery 2002-2003. The website has a searchable data base of the victims and survivors of Liepaja families during the Holocaust including a Family card and 7152 names. |
| POLAND | Ozarow Cemetery Restoration Project. www.heritageabroad.gov | Online website | U.S.Commission for the preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad | The U.S.Commision helped with the preservation of the cemetery in 2001. The cemetery dates back almost 400 years and has 300 monuments. The cemetery was mostly destroyed in WW2 and tombstones used by the Germans for fortifications |
| POLAND | Polish Jewish Cemeteries. cmentarze-zydowskie.pl | Large list of Polish Jewish cemeteries with links to each cemetery. The website started 2005. The aim is to document Polish Jewish Cemeteries and draw attention to the disappearance pre-war of large numbers of Jewish cemeteries and communities. Photographs of each cemetery and tombstones | ||
| POLAND | Prague Jewish cemeteries. http://www.porges.net | Parik.A | Jewish Museum in Prague website 2008 | Photographs of rare tombstones dating from 15th -18th century and later |
| POLAND | Preserving Jewish cemeteries as an Actual challenge | Chipczyriska.A | De Gruyter Oldenburg.2020 | The publication focuses on the legal aspects of Jewish cemeteries and the influence that national law and politics has on the Jewish community and the preservation and protection of their cemeteries |
| POLAND | Reflections Tombstones: Childhood Memories | Barasch.M. JSTOR online article | Artibus et Historiae Vol 9.No 17 . 1988 | The tombstones of Czernowitz and personal reflections on the cemetery and comments on the tombstone carvings |
| POLAND | Remnant Stories: The Jewish cemeteries of Suriname | Barasch.M | Artibus et Historiaes Vol 9.No 17. IRSA Publishing.1988) | Suriname’s Jewish burial practices. iconography. history and influences are examined. Personal observations and comments on some of the tombstones in the Jewish cemetery. |
| POLAND | Still Life: Sephardic. Ashkenazi and West African art and form in Suriname’s cemeteries | Ur-Ben.A and Frankel.R | Cincinnati. 2005 | The publication examines iconography of tombstones. Suriname’s Jewish history. burial practices. symbols and their meaning |
| POLAND | The destruction of Jewish Cemeteries (Poland) | Bielawski.K (written in Polish) | Association of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland. the Nissenbaum Family Foundation and the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland.2020 | The book discusses the destruction of Poland’s Jewish Cemeteries 1933-1945 and further destruction post WW2 |
| POLAND | The Jewish Cemetery in Lodz | Podgarbi.B | Wydawinctwo Artuo.1990 | One of the largest Jewish Cemeteries in the World. Opened in 1892. Between 180000-230000 graves plus mass graves from the Holocaust and Littzmannstandt Ghetto Polish edition-96 pages |
| POLAND | The Jewish Cemetery of Tomaszow Mazowiecki Headstones which tell stories. zchor.org/tomaszow/htm | Gumpel.M. M; Yarri.B ( ed) | Jerusalem.1995 Online site. Israeli Organisation of the ex-Residents of Tomaszow.Tel Aviv.1996 | The article describes the project to identify and preserve the remaining few hundred tombstones (many destroyed WW2) in the cemetery with reference to their iconography and design |
| POLAND | The Oldest tombstones in the Jewish cemetery in Tarnow | Hondo.L | Verlag:Tarnow. 1992 | The book should be linked to the IAGS Cemetery Project online data base which includes reference to Tarnow including its historical and cultural context. further research by Hondo on the cemetery |
| POLAND | The Very Stone Shall Be a Witness. The Jewish cemetery-Wielkieoczy | Trzinski.A.2019 | Wielkie Oczy Foundation Publishing 2019 | 372 pages and 162 illustrations. This book expands on the original publication and includes iconography. grave stones inscriptions |
| POLAND | Tombstone inscriptions to Odessa Cemeteries | Parkinsky.A co-ordinator | Online searchable data base-KehilaLinks | 1889 book of tombstone inscriptions-Odessa books data base and All Odesa base |
| POLAND | Unsettled Heritage. Living next to Poland’s Material Jewish Traces after the Holocaust | Weizman.Y | Cornell University Press. 2010 | The destruction and abandonment ofPolands Jewish cemeteries during and after WW2 and the influence that central. municipal and local Polish communities have upon their protection and preservation |
| POLAND | Warsaw Jewish Cemetery-Beis Olam. https://jri-poland.org/cemetery/warsaw_beisolam.htm | Jewish Records Indexing. Poland | Online searchable data base | 15000 burials recorded with family names. given names and location. An online request form for searches with e mail requested |
| PORTUGAL | Faro Jewish Cemetery | Online searchable data base by last name | Findagrave online; SephardicGen online; JOWBR online | The first burial dates from 1838 and the last 1932. There are 106 graves and 71 tombstones. The Findagrave lists various individuals buried ( no photographs) |
| PORTUGAL | Lisbon’s Hidden Jewish Cemetery. Theworldelsewhere.com/2020/02/22 | Marshall. O – blog 2020 | A brief history of the return of Jews to Lisbon following expulsion and the establishment of a new cemetery. The Estrela Jewish Cemetery first tombstone was 1804. A further cemetery was established in 1868. Approximately 150 tombstones are in the 1868 cemetery. There is an aerial photograph of the site with a further short link to YouTube with a video of the tombstones | |
| ROMANIA | Jewish Cemeteries of Bucovana: An illustrated book for tourists and against forgetting | Geissbuhler.S and Morar. O | Bucuresti. 3009 | Colour illustrations and map |
| RUMANIA | The Jewish Cemetery –Cimitirului Evreiece Rumania. data.jewishgen.org | JOWBR-Sziget Burial Records Data base | Records relating to 2060 graves with additional data base for last name origins. See also JewishGen Sziget Burial Records Data base website article | |
| RUSSIA | Bagnowka:A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale | Szpek.H.M. | iUniverse bookstore | Description of Bagnowka. Bialystok cemetery now north eastern Poland founded 1892-Holocaust |
| RUSSIA | Carved Memories: Heritage in Stones from the Jewish Russian Pale | Goberman.D | Rizzoli International Publications.2000 | 125 Photographs of tombstones |
| RUSSIA | Indexing Historic Graves in Belarus | Graves.by | Ongoing website with updates | Iilya and Radoshkovich Jewish cemeteries. Ongoing project with individuals submitting photographs of tombstones and burial plots. Some entries of individual burials |
| RUSSIA | Jewish Cemeteries and burial culture in Russia- the example of St. Petersburg. journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de | Dementieva.V.A. | Online article 2011 | The article describes the establishment of the St Petersburg Jewish cemetery and its development. Some photographs are included |
| RUSSIA | Jewish Religious Community of St. Petersburg-Jewish Cemetery. Jekl.ru/web | Online website Jewish Religious Community of St. Petersburg | An ongoing site established 2009 with the aim of caring for Jewish graves in St. Petersburg. A list of 100000 burials. Ongoing updates and biographies | |
| RUSSIA | Judaism and Jews Russia and the Ukraine. http://www.graves.by | Toldot.ru/life/cemetery | Online website established 2007 | Searchable website contains 110000 graves in 94 cemeteries in 27 cities of Russia. Updated regularly |
| RUSSIA | Lubavitch.Russia Jewish Cemetery. Anash.org | Anash reporter | online article 2022 | All graves located in 2022 with search facilities by surname |
| RUSSIA | Preobrazhenskoye Jewish Cemetery St. Petersburg. Finda grave | Online website Findagrave | 195 memorials with some photographs | |
| RUSSIA | Synagogues and Jewish Cemeteries in the Russian Empire. bfhu.org/product/synagogues-and-jewish-cemeteries-in-the-russian—empire-lecture-1-of-3 | Levine.V | Online 3 lectures. 2021. British Friends of the Hebrew University website | A series of 3 online lectures describing the historical context of Russian Jewish Synagogues and cemeteries including the effects of settlement on design and materials |
| RUSSIA | The secrets of the Jewish Cemetery Sestroretsk | Guterman.D | The Canadian Jewish News 2017 | 230 Jews buried and only 120 tombstones with legible inscriptions. The projects aim is to save and protect the destruction of the cemetery |
| RUSSIA | The shetl of Zheludok in contemporary cultural memory | Kopehenola.I (ed) | Moscow. 2013 and SEFER Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilisation-online article | The article refers to a catalogue of 300 tombstone inscriptions. It also includes reference to the birth and marriage records 1914 and the murder of Jewish inhabitants by the Germans in 1942 |
| RUSSIA | The shetl of Zheludok in contemporary cultural memory | Kopehenola.I (ed) | Moscow. 2013 and SEFER Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilisation-online article | The article refers to a catalogue of 300 tombstone inscriptions. It also includes reference to the birth and marriage records 1914 and the murder of Jewish inhabitants by the Germans in 1942 |
| RUSSIA | Written in Stones: The Art and Meaning of Rohatyn’s Jewish Grave Markers. Rohatynjewishheritage.org | Rohaytn Jewish Heritage. Online website | Online article | A review of the Eastern Jewish Ashkenazic tombstone epitaphs. materials used for the tombstones. design. symbols. grave covers ( some photographs and sources are listed). |
| SCOTLAND | Scottish Jewish Cemeteries. scottishjewishcemeteries.org | Online searchable data base | data base | 20 cemeteries listed based on 7 years research using old burial registers and other sources. Cemeteries and burials data base searches |
| SOUTH AFRICA | Photographs of Jewish Tombstones and Cemeteries in South Africa. https://www.eggsa.org | eSGGA | eSGGA | Photographs of tombstones and cemeteries in: Eastern Cape. Free state. Gauteng. Kwazulu-Natal. Limpopo.Mpumalanga.North West. Northern Cape. WesternCape. Whereabouts unknown. World wide |
| SOUTH AFRICA | South African Jewish Rootsbank (2015) Cemeteries.deaths.and Estates. https://eggsa.org | Online searchable data base by cemetery and last name | 185 cemeteries with a last name search | |
| SOUTH AMERICA AND WEST INDIES | The First Sephardi Cemeteries in South America and in the West Indies. https://www.jstor.com | Bohm.G | Studia Rosenthaliana Vol 25. No 1 (Spring 1991). JSTOR online readable article by registration | Pages 3-14. The Recife cemetery Pernambuco circa 1636 and its disappearance post 1645 following the Portuguese insurrection |
| SPAIN | The Tombstone of Moses Ibn Abi Zardil ( d 1354). www.jstor.com | Zelson.L.G. | The Jewish Quarterly Review. New Series Vol 19. No 2 (October 1978). Online downloadable JSTOR University of Pennsylvania Press | Description of the tombstone and its defacement |
| SURINAME | Remnant Stones. The Jewish Cemeteries of Suriname; epitaphs Vol 1 and 2 | Ben-Ur.A. | Hebrew Union College Press Cincinatti.2009;2012 with Frankel. R | Volume 1 Presents transcriptions and selected photographs of almost 1700 gravestones and plans of the cemeteries. The establishment of 3 Sephardic and 1 Ashkenazi cemetery is described and discussed in Vol 2. The community was established in the 1660s by Jews of Iberian origin fleeing persecution |
| SWITZERLAND | Gravestones at the Jewish Cemetery at Endingen 1750-1850. Vols 3 -4 | Stein.P | German Edition. The book is held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library | |
| SWITZERLAND | Jewish Cemeteries in Switzerland. https://svjg.ch | Online data base | SV-JG website | An alphabetical list of cemeteries several with brief descriptions and website links |
| TURKEY | A survey of Jewish Cemeteries in Western Turkey. https://www.jstor.com | Rozen.M JSTOR Online article –registration required for access | The Jewish Quarterly Review Vol 83.no1/2 University of Pennsylvania Press.1992 | Research project photographing and recording data on numbers of Jewish Cemeteries in Turkey. The article considered factors such as emigration. historic changes and social and religious and their impact on Jewish cemeteries including their maintenance. Details of analysis of tombstones are recorded |
| TURKEY | A world beyond; Jewish cemeteries in Turkey. jewishturkstones.tau.ac.il | Digital Humanities in Jewish Studies-Online website | The Lester and Sally Erin Faculty of Universities. Tel Aviv University 2021 | Major data base of digital images and textual content of nearly 60000 Jewish gravestones from various Turkish Communities 1583-1990 |
| TURKEY | Haskoy Cemetery: Typology of Stones. http://www.turkeyahudileri.com | Rozen.M and Wachsmann.G . Online searchable data base | Turkish and Balkan Jewry Documentation Project of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Centre Tel Aviv University.Philadelphia:Center for Judaic studies. University of Pennsylvania and Tel Aviv; Diaspora Research Institute.Tel Aviv University.1994 | The website has a very sophisticated research facility and is one of the largest in the world. The research was under the leadership of Prof.Minna Rozen with a research team. They mapped 28 different Jewish from 1988-1990 Turkish cemeteries and took over 100000 photographs |
| TURKEY | The Bodrum Jewish Cemetery | Bora.S and Koseman ( Translator) | Libra Kitap.2017 | Bodrum Jewish cemetery south west Turkey. Detailed images of all surviving tombstones. translations of every legible epitaph. Jewish funerary tradition. history of the community. B/w photographs and annotated footnotes on the tombstones |
| UK | 250 Years of Burial in Liverpool. scienceopen.com | Sapiro.P. | Jewish Historical Studies. UCL Press 2021 | Project to produce a digital record of every Jewish burial in Liverpool Old Cemeteries old cemeteries. Deane Road and Green Lane |
| UK | A brief introduction to Jewish cemeteries | Smith.N | The Historic England Online article with photographs. 2020 | Reference to English cemeteries from Medieval to post resettlement. Photographs. iconography and comments are included |
| UK | A catalogue and index of the Graves in the Jewish Cemetery at Fishponds. Bristol | Tobias. A | The survey was completed in 1997 | The survey is held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library. The names of those buried (1997) are included. Note the JCR-UK onsite searchable burial data base |
| UK | A catalogue of the burials in the Jewish Cemetery Bristol | Tobias. A | 1999 The publication was based on original research by Tobias and several others resulting in a data base of burials | The book is held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library. See JCR-UK Bristol Cemeteries Data base which is searchable by surname. |
| UK | A ramble in East Anglia-Disused Jewish cemeteries | Gollancz. H JSTOR online article | Jewish Historical Society of England Vol 2 ( 1894-95) | An account of visits to Ipswich. Bury St. Edmund and Norwich Jewish cemeteries with reference to their lack of preservation. Reference to tombstone inscriptions is made. |
| UK | Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery London E1 1697-1853 | Susser.B | United Synagogue Publications. 1997.JGSGB Library Index Record Online library records-see International Jewish Cemetery Project website Alderney Road Cemetery. London for further links | Held by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Library. Includes notes and other documents. This was his last publication prior to his death in 1997.Ashkenazi oldest cemetery. |
| UK | Alphabetical list of Kvorim ( graves) on Enfield and Cheshunt Federation Cemeteries to 1999 | Katz.M | JGSGB Library Index Record. Online library records | Held by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Library |
| UK | Anglo Jewish Burial Grounds. The post resettlement period | Smith.N ( Bowden.M Ed(2019) | Historic England online | The document reviews early re-settlement period from 1656 and the Jewish burial grounds. Includes some photographs of cemeteries and tombstones. |
| UK | Balls Pond Burial Ground; Index of Burials | Martin-Jones.T | JGSGB Library Index Record. Online library records | Held by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library |
| UK | Bath Historic Jewish Cemetery. bathjewishburialground.org | The Friends of Bath Jewish Burial Ground. | The website describes the work of the Friends of Bath Jewish Burial Ground established in 2005. The groups aim is to conserve and protect the site for public access and to restore it. There are about 40 tombstones but many are adversely affected by decay. There is a searchable data base by surname. Numbers of photographs of the cemetery and its restoration are on the site | |
| UK | Beneath our feet. Oxford’s Medieval Jewish Cemetery | Manix.P.S. | Roke. Elm Books. Woodstock. Oxon. 2014 | 40 pages. Discovery of the first Jewish cemetery 1189-90 up to 1232 including skeletons and bone fragments. The publication includes a map of the Medieval Jewish Cemetery |
| UK | Bet Hayim: An Introduction to Jewish Funerary Art and Architecture in Britain | Kadish.S | Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society 49. 2005 | Describes the beliefs and customs relating to Jewish burial and the issues of preserving cemeteries and tombstones as part of the survey of Jewish cemeteries in the UK and Ireland |
| UK | Bet Hayim: An Introduction to Jewish Funerary Art and Architecture in Britain | Kadish.S | Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society 49. 2005 | Describes the beliefs and customs relating to Jewish burial and the issues of preserving cemeteries and tombstones as part of the survey of Jewish cemeteries in the UK and Ireland |
| UK | British Jewry Leeds data base. https://british-jewry.org.uk | Sullins.J and Landa.S | Online website | Data base on Leeds Jewish individuals and families including census data. The site also has a forum for researchers investigating their family history plus other data bases |
| UK | Burial Records of the Great and Hambro Synagogues 1791-1837 | Lewin.H | Harold and Miriam Lewin. 2013 | This book is held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Library; 373 pages. Transcriptions from the burial records |
| UK | Canterbury: Record Book of births. deaths. marriages and cemetery of the Jews of Canterbury 1831-1870. Includes Dover. Deal. Ramsgate | No details of author | No details of publication or publisher | This publication is held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Library. No details are provided in the library index |
| UK | Collyer- Fergusson Collection Anglo Jewish records | Collyer-Fergusson. T (1865-1951) | Sir Thomas Colyer-Fergusson collection of Jewish Genealogies | Microfilm of Anglo Jewish families and individuals including family trees. Includes details of some burials. The films are held at the JGSGB Library and the Society of Genealogists. London. Family search |
| UK | Discovering and Documenting England’s Lost Jews. https://www.lostjews.org.uk | Goldstein.S ( ed) Online E-book | Pascal Theatre Company.2021 | There is a chapter on Mile End Cemeteries Velho and Novo with photographs |
| UK | East End Jewish Cemeteries: Brady Street. Alderney Road | Berk.L. | Amberley Books.2017 | A 5 year project to document and photograph the effects of the changing seasons on Brady Street and Alderney Road Jewish cemeteries. Images of tombstones and iconography are photographed |
| UK | Edmonton Federation Cemetery. Burial records Sections A-R. https://www.jewishgen.org | Porte.E | The list can be seen on JCR-UK online data base searchable by name | The updated list of names is held by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library |
| UK | Edmonton Federation Cemetery: Lives of prominent rabbinic and communal leaders | Landau. A | Edmonton Federation.2018 | 50 biographies and rare photographs. The book is held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library |
| UK | Excavations by York Archaeological Trust investigating the remains of the Jewish Cemetery used between 1177-1230 pre-1290 expulsion | Honeybourne. M.B | Jewish Historical Society of England Vol 20.1959-61 | 500 bodies recorded for anthropological analysis. The cemetery was started 1177 up to 1290 expulsion |
| UK | Glamorgan F.H.S. Merthyr Tydfil Glamorgan Jewish cemetery at Cefn Coed y Cymmer Monumental inscriptions | No details of author | No details of publisher | Held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library |
| UK | Glasgow Hebrew Burial Society. Glasgowhebrewburialsociety.org | Cemetery Hebrew Burial Society | Collation of burial data from old registers dating back to the late 1930s. The cemeteries are Glenduffhill. Riddries. Sandymount. The index was last updated 2016 with 11000 graves in 3 cemeteries with photographs of tombstones. This site links to the Scottish Jewish Cemeteries where the burial data base can be searched | |
| UK | Golders Green Crematorium 1902 – 2002 | Edited by Peter C Jupp and Hilary J Grainger | London Cremation Company.2002 | To celebrate the centenary of Golders Green Crematorium which was the first in London. |
| UK | Hambro Synagogue Burial Register (Grove Street Cemetery) 1718-1813 ( now Lauriston Road) | Susser.B | Held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library. See link to JCR-UK Hambro’s Synagogue Burial Register –The Susser Archives. Description of the register and its purpose including list of names buried | |
| UK | Hidden in Plain sight Chelsea’s Jewish Cemetery. rbklocalstudies.wordpress | Walker.D. | Walker. Dan. 2016 | A personal account in 2016 including photographs. commentary on the history of Chelsea Jewish Cemetery. There is an early (1896) photograph of tombstones and a map showing the cemetery in 1836 |
| UK | Hull Hebrew Cemetery. Church Lane.Marfleet Lane from 1938 and Central Hull Hebrew Congregation and Hull Western Street from 1855 | Allerston.J | 1986 | Held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library. Transcriptions of tombstone inscriptions |
| UK | Hull Old Hebrew Burial Ground.Hedon Road from 1858 and Hull Western Synagogue Burial Ground | Allerston. J Schneider. Paradise. E | No date of publication | Publication held at the JGSGB Library. No details |
| UK | Hyamson Anglo Jewish Collection | Hyamson. A.H. (1875-1954) | The data is the personal work of Albert Montefiore Hyamson collected and recorded over many years | Microfilm of Anglo Jewish families and individuals including family trees. Includes details of some burials. The films are held at the JGSGB library. Society of Genealogists. London . Family search |
| UK | Ipswich Jewish Community notes and cemetery inscriptions fromc1811-1850 | No details | No details | Held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library. No details recorded on library index |
| UK | Jewish Cemeteries of Devon | Fry. H.P. | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.2012 | 2000 burials recorded in 5 Devon cemeteries from mid-1700s. The cemeteries: The Hoe Jewish Cemetery. Plymouth; Gifford Place Jewish Cemetery. Plymouth; Exwick Jewish Cemetery. Magdalen Street. Exeter; Torquay and Paignton Jewish Cemetery. Colney End Road. South Devon |
| UK | Jewish Chronicle | Online searches by subscription with Archive data base | Weekly circulation by subscription | The oldest Jewish newspaper in the world. Established 1841 to present. Newspaper records include the names of individual deaths with family relationships usually recorded. Many have tombstone setting dates and cemetery location |
| UK | Jewish East End of London Photo Gallery and Commentary. jewisheastend.com/maidenlane.html | Blog | Blog entry 2016 | The story and history of the Bancroft Road Cemetery. Mile End and Maiden Lane Synagogue. Covent Garden. Some photographs of tombstones and the cemetery |
| UK | Jewish Funerary architecture in Britain and Ireland since 1656. https://www.jstor.com | Kadish. S. JSTOR online article | Jewish Historical Studies. 43. 2011 | Description of the development of Jewish tombstones including design. materials and influences. Some b/w photographs |
| UK | Jewish Gilroes-a genealogical and photographic record the Jewish graves at Giloes Cemetery . Leicester. Jewish-gilroes.org.uk | Leicester Hebrew Congregation | The project has a searchable data base of burials- there are over 900 burial plots in the Orthodox Jewish cemetery. The first burial was in 1902 | |
| UK | Jewish Tombstone Inscriptions –S.W.England- Studies in Anglo Jewish History No 3. | Susser.B. Online (Introduction. Exeter section and others)-JCR 2003 | Susser Press.1996 and JCR online 2003 | Description of the acculturation of tombstone inscriptions and the deciphering of inscriptions |
| UK | London Cemeteries:illustrated Guide and Gazetteer | Meller. H and Parsons.B | The History Press.2011 originally published Avebury Publishing.2008 | A comprehensive guide to 126 London cemeteries within Greater London; listed alphabetically including a map to identify locations. The history of the cemeteries is described with 230 photographs. planning. architecture. epitaphs are included. Short biographies of 200 notable persons |
| UK | Middlesborough Hebrew Congregation Old and New cemeteries. http://kmbro.weebly.com | Bookey.B | Also online site Kehilat Middlesbrough Newsletter and Archives. | Held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library. The original research was in 1987 and there is an online site containing searchable records of burials on both the old and new cemeteries and plans of the cemeteries |
| UK | Ramsgate Jewish Cemeteries 1872-2016 | Kelly.B and Tripp.G | 2016 published by the authors | Burial register. map. monumental inscriptions and selected obituaries Held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library |
| UK | S.Marks Deane Road Cemetery. Liverpool’s oldest Jewish burial ground. Guide book | No details of author | The book is held by the Jewish Genealogical Society Great Britain library. No details given on library index of publications | |
| UK | Samuel Isaac. Saul Isaac and Nathaniel Isaacs | Jolles. M | 1998- Jolles publication | Details of the burials of some individuals at Chatham Jewish Cemetery- see JCR online searchable data base for Chatham cemetery 2006 |
| UK | Sheffield Central Hebrew Congregation: 1 Plan of Burial Ground at Blind Lane. Sheffield 2 Walkley Jewish Cemetery list and plan 3 Burial Register Sheffield United Synagogue 1874-1997 | No details of author | No details of publication date | The documents are held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library. No details included in library index of publications |
| UK | Southampton’s Old Jewish Cemetery. jewishartmonuments.blogspot.com | Gruber.S Online blog Samgrubers | 2019 blog | Description of Southampton’s Jewish cemetery including photographs. history. comments on iconography. certain individuals identified and discussed |
| UK | Susser Tombstone inscriptions Old Jewish Cemetery Plymouth. https://www.jewishgen.org | Susser.B | JCR-UK The Susser Archive 1972. New edition 1996. Online article | Transcriptions.Abbreviations.Glossary |
| UK | The Archaeology of Anglo Jewry in England and Wales 1656-c1880 | Marks.K. The book can be seen in part via Google Books website | Archaeopress and K marks. Oxford 2014 | Photographs. maps. plans. survey maps of a number of cemeteries in England and Wales. Descriptions of the selected cemeteries with data. |
| UK | The Burial Ground Controversy between Anglo-Jewry and the Victorian Board of Health 1850 | Gilham. A. JSTOR online article | Jewish Historical Society of England Vol 6. 1962 | A study of the conflict between the English Jewish community and the Board of Health regarding secular and religious sanitary practices and cultural burial practices |
| UK | The Burial Ground Controversy between Anglo-Jewry and the Victorian Board of Health 1850 | Gilham. A | Jewish Social Studies Vol 45. No2 (Spring 1983). Indiana University Press | A study of the conflict between the English Jewish community and the Board of Health regarding secular and religious sanitary practices and cultural burial practices |
| UK | The burial register of Spanish and Portuguese Jews of London 1657-1735 | Barnett. R.D. | Jewish Historical Society of England Vol 6. 1962 JSTOR online article | A transcribed list of names in the register from 5 Sebath 5444. Bethahaim Velho Burial Register |
| UK | The Cemetery of Resettlement | Master A.S.Diamond | Jewish Historical Society of England Vol 19.(1955-59) | The article considers the background search for a Synagogue post re-settlement and the establishment and later enlargement of a Jewish burial ground in London. Mile End (Bethahaim). Records cited include burials from 1673 including some names and date of death. |
| UK | The closed cemeteries of Manchester. www.jewishgen.org | Kay.L | Shemot December 2004 Vol 12. no 4 Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain | Description of the 4 closed Manchester Jewish cemeteries including the state of the cemeteries in 2004 |
| UK | The Forgotten Ancestry of the oldest Jewish cemetery in Greater Manchester. https://communityreporter.net/story/forgotten-ancestry-oldest-jewish-cemetery-greater-manchester | Online data base | The Institute of Community Reporters | Pendleton Cemetery 1794-1840; 29 survey burial records with reference also to the Solomon Behrens’s family |
| UK | The Jewish burial ground at Jewbury. York | Addyman. P V and Kinsler.V (eds) | Council for British Archaelogy.1994 | A discussion on the early Jewish cemetery 1177-1230 up to expulsion in 1290 including the discovery and analysis of 500 bodies |
| UK | The Jewish Victorian: Genealogical Information from the Jewish Newspapers 1861-1870; 1871-1880 | Berger.D | Robert Boyd. 1999 2004 | 2 Volumes containing births. marriages and deaths plus other records from the Jewish Chronicle and Jewish Record newspapers. The records include some burial data on individuals. Family relationships are also identified. |
| UK | The Liverpool Necrology Project and Burial Data base | Sapiro.P | Shemot.December 2020. Vol 28.No 3 Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain- see also JCR-UK Liverpool Jewish Cemeteries website | The project was from 2015-2019 and includes JCR –UK Liverpool Jewish Cemeteries searchable data base. Some 14.400 individual burials across 11 cemeteries in Liverpool |
| UK | The London Burial Grounds | Holmes. I.M. The book is available online via Gutenberg.org | The original publication was in 1896 but there are facsimile copies available | In the book there are entries for A Corner of the Jewish Cemetery Mile End. Jewish Cemetery Fulham. Jewish Burial ground behind Beth Holim Hospital. Jewish Cemetery Mile End. There are photographs and a brief description of the cemeteries |
| UK | The Medieval Jewish Cemetery at Jewbury.York | McComish. J | Jewish culture and history Vol 3. Issue 2. 2000 | The article considers the difference between Christian and Jewish burials based on the skeletal evidence from the 1983 York examination of the Jewbury Jewish cemetery |
| UK | The Medieval York Jewry Re-considered | Dobson.B | Jewish Culture and History Vol 3. 2000. Pp7-20 | The article updates and re-considers the 1982-83 study of the massacre of Jews in York in 1190 and the further research findings regarding the York Jewish community pre 1290 expulsion |
| UK | The Northampton Jewish Cemetery. The Jewish section of Towcester Road Cemetery | Jolles. M | Jolles Publication.1994 | Held at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain library 194 pages- the cemetery was opened in 1902 and further extended in 1960. It is still open. All graves indexed up to 1994 in the publication |
| UK | The Old Jewish Cemetery Ipswich | Ipswich-lettering.co.uk/jewishcemetery.html | Ipswich Lettering website. 2014 | Description of the cemetery with photographs including aerial photograph (2018). There is a feature on Alderman Abraham Raphael Jr (2020) with a response from a descendant. There are 36 tombstones in 7 rows. The earliest tombstone 1797/8 |
| UK | The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History | Rubenstein.W.Jolles.M.Hilary.L | Palgrave Macmillan. 2011 | A dictionary containing details of well-known Anglo Jewish individuals including biography |
| UK | The Penzance Jewish Cemetery: A concise History and Guide | Pearce.K | Penlee House Gallery and Museum.2015 | The publication describes the history and preservation of the Penzance Jewish cemetery established in the 1740s. There is an online Friends of the Penzance Jewish Cemetery website which includes photographs. |
| UK | The Pre expulsion Cemetery of the Jews in London | Honeybourne. M.B. Subscription required to read the article online | Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England. XX (1959-61)PP 145-159 | The survey and excavation of part of the London Medieval cemetery with reference to original manuscripts and records. A plan of the cemetery is included |
| UK | The Sephardic Jewish Cemeteries at Queen Mary. University of London | Lipman.C | Queen Mary University. London .2012 | The history of the Velho and Neovo Sephardic cemeteries including case studies on individual burials such as Daniel Mendoza and Benjamin D’Israeli. The re-internment of Neovo burials to Brentwood.Essex is also discussed |
| UK | The Situation. Preservation and Care of Jewish Cemeteries in the United Kingdom. Journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de | Kadish.S. | University of Heidelberg. 2015 | The author conducted the first systematic survey of synagogues in the UK. The article describes the history of the early Jewish cemeteries and post re-settlement development and the issues affecting their maintenance and preservation |
| UK | Tombstone Inscriptions at Exeter Jewish Cemetery (Hebrew inscriptions and notes). https://www.jstor.com | Susser.B. Online (Introduction. Exeter section and others)-JCR 2003 | JCR-UK online 2014 | Compiled 1940 by M Adler with Hebrew transcriptions and notes B .Susser 1963.A list of names in Hebrew and English including date at death; many also with age at death |
| UK | Tombstone Inscriptions at Falmouth Jewish Cemetery. https://www.jstor.com | Susser.B and Joseph.B.L | Online JCR-UK Susser Archives 2014 Part of Tombstones inscriptions in SW England | Part of Susser Archive JCR-UK)-List of burials with names. plot. death. relationships. Transcript made 1992 |
| UK | United Synagogues Burials www.theus.org.uk | Online searchable data base | Searchable data base United Synagogue Burial Society | The site enables first and last name searches of burials recorded in the following cemeteries:Alderney Road.Aldershot.Bancroft Road.Bushey.Brady Street.Dover.East Ham.Eretz Hachaim. Lauriston Road.Plashet.Sheffield.Southport. Waltham Abbey. West Ham. Willesden |
| UK | When Scotland was Jewish | Hirschman.E.C. and Yates.D.N. | McFarland and Co.2013 | The research considers the early history of Jewish communities in Scotland and the important role they had in Scotland’s history and culture. A range of sources including census. DNA. archaeology. migration. early documents have been examined to show that Jewish culture and history is interwoven with Scotland’s culture and history |
| UK | Willesden Jewish Cemetery. The House of Life. Willesdenjewishcemetery.org.uk | The cemetery website has a you tube video of the cemetery with an introduction. There are 30000 burials since 1873 and continuing burials to date. The website includes a focus on several well-known Jews buried in the cemetery | ||
| UKRAINE | Jewish Cemeteries. Synagogues and Mass Grave sites in Ukraine. Syracusesurface.syr.edu | Gruber. S.D. Online Syracuse University | Online research article 2005 United Sates Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad | Jewish sites are recorded with historic context. community background and involvement. preservation and issues. survey data Includes photographs |
| UKRAINE | The Jewish cemetery in Sataniv: A Destroyed Monument of Jewish creative vandalism and desecration disguised as ‘Care’. Jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2021 | Khaimovich.B Online | Online article as part of ongoing website with updates | Description of the recent movement of tombstones and the reasons for it. The issue relates to Orthodox groups moving and re-arranging tombstones away from their original location. This has led to statements such as desecration and vandalism. The cemetery has rare historic tombstones with beautiful carved configuration dating back to the 16th century. Unique monuments of Jewish history and Jewish art in Eastern Europe |
| UKRAINE | Visual Motifs in the decoration of tombstones in the Ukraine Revival: Rubbings of Jewish tombstones from the Ukraine Department of Art History. Hebrew University. https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu | Amar.A. Sabar.S (ed) | 1992 0nline downloadable article- registration required Jerusalem Hechal Shlomo. Department of Art History. Hebrew University; Jerusalem. Theatre.1992 | The article describes the work of a group of students from St. Petersburg. Leningrad cleaning and preserving various Jewish monuments and tombstones in the Ukraine. The rubbings formed an exhibition. |
| UKRAINE | Why the Streets are paved with Jewish Gravestones. Deseret.com | Online document. | Deseret.1996 | Ivano-Frankivsk. Ukraine. Until 1962 the town was called Stanislaviv in 1939 50000 of the inhabitants were Jews. The town had 55 synagogues. The town was used in WW2 as a deportation centre where 60-70000 were killed and 40000 transported to Belzec. Polish concentration camp. The Nazis destroyed many of the tombstones and used them for paving the rail yard. The Soviets also used gravestones for construction. |
| USA | A burial Place for the Jewish Nation Forever. https://www.jstor.com | Phillips. R.S. | American Jewish Historical Society. No 18 (1909) The Johns Hopkins University Press. JSTOR online | The acquisition of the cemetery situated near Chatham Square. New Bowery. New York City in 1729 and its subsequent history. Some inscriptions of tombstones are included but others having been defaced or too worn |
| USA | A self-guided tour of monuments of Jews buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge. Massachusetts: A history of the evolution of the Jewish Presence in America’s Oldest Garden cemetery | Segal.J | Jewish Cemetery Publishing.LLC 2007 | 88 pages. The book describes the historical changes to Jewish monuments from the 19th to the present including photographs and iconography |
| USA | Baron Hirsch Congregation Memphis. Tennessee Cemetery. https://www.baronhirsch.org | Online data base of 80 pages of burial listings | Baron Hirsch congregation | Plot listing by alphabetic surname. row. plot numbers. No data on date of burial or other data. First burial dates from 1847.Currently 3400 burials. Cemetery map |
| USA | Cincinnati Project –Jewish Community. Jcemcin.org | Cincinnati Jewish Community- Project director Strouse.S. | Ongoing project | The project aim is to develop a database of 35000 burials Jewish cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati in 25 cemeteries |
| USA | Citizen Kainen: A criminal defense attorney saves a cemetery. https://www.jstor | M. Morocco | American Bar Association Journal Vol 68.No 9 ( September.1992) | The saving of the Jewish section of the City of Miami Jewish Cemetery |
| USA | Data collection of New York Jewish burials from 1989. https://jgsny.org/searchable-databases/burial-society-databases | Online searchable data base by cemetery name. society name. town/city or county | Jewish Genealogical Society New York | The data collection began in 1989 in New York with 10200 entries from almost 100 Cemeteries including Long Island. Putnam County. Westchester County. Northern New Jersey |
| USA | Documenting Maine Jewry-Jewish cemeteries in Maine. Mainejews.org | Ongoing website and data bases | All Maine Jewish Cemeteries are recorded with Searchable databases on each cemetery- also linked to JewishGen –JOWBR.Known burials are recorded. Images of tombstones are being added. Access to full biographic records is via registered users | |
| USA | Dust to Dust: A history of Jewish death and burial in New York | Amanik. A | New York University Press. 2019 | Death and burial practices within a changing historical. religious and cultural context in New York between 1650s-1950s. The crucial role of the family influencing these changes is examined. |
| USA | Fir Street Cemetery Cleveland’s Second oldest Jewish cemetery. Clevelandhistorical.org | Dubelko.J | Cleveland Historical online article | Photographs. cemetery plan and details of certain individuals |
| USA | Grave Matters: Childhood. Identity and Converso Funerary art in Colonial America. https://www.sephardichorizons.org | Leibmant.L and Goldblatt.S | Sephardic Horizons website. 2022 | A description with photos of the tombstone of Isaac Lopez buried d1762 Newport and the Lopez family. Includes a simplified family tree of Lopez-Rivera lines. The article considers the Sephardic iconography in the Touro Cemetery and the seeking of identity by Jewish Converso’s. A comprehensive bibliography is included. |
| USA | Jewish Cemeteries of Congregation Berith Shalome. Charleston. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu | Elzas.A | Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina. 1910 Online article | The cemeteries include Georgetown. Orangeburg. Sumter. New Jewish Cemetery of K.K. Beth Elohim Charleston. Transcript of the inscriptions on the tombstones 1762-1903. Beth Israel Cemetery |
| USA | Jewish Cemeteries of Five Counties of Connecticut: The Cohen/Goldfarb collection | Cohen. E.A. and Goldfarb.L | Heritage Books.1995 Vol 2 2015 | The cemeteries are identified and described including burial details. name. age. row. maiden name. place of birth |
| USA | Jewish Cemeteries of the Delmarva Peninsula. A burial index for Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore | Preisler. J.H. | Westminster MD: Family line publications.1995 | Details on the Jewish cemeteries Wilmington (Dover). Salisbury-Maryland. Illustrations |
| USA | Jewish Cemeteries Publications. https://cemeteryjewish.com | Online list of publications on Jewish cemeteries in USA | JCP. LLC | An online list of USA Jewish cemeteries publications many written by Rabbi Joshua Segal |
| USA | Jewish Rest Cemetery and Beth Jacob Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions | Ashbrook.G and Davis.E.C. | Garland County Historical Society.2006 | The tombstone date from 1870. The book contains inscriptions. maps. alphabetical index. photographs. brief notes. Approximately 50 internments |
| USA | Judah Touro Cemetery Association. Jcemcin.org/Judah-touro-cemetery-association-inc/ | Online article adapted from a talk by S Strauss. 2011 | Judah Touro Cemetery Association | Historical overview of the Judah Touro cemetery. 1st burial 1856 |
| USA | Minneapolis Jewish Cemetery Association Records 1940-1958 | Upper Mid -West Jewish Archives | Minneapolis Jewish Cemetery Association | Plot books and burial records 1940-58 are recorded on a micro film |
| USA | Some reference to early Jewish Cemeteries in New York City. https://www.jstor.com | Solis.E.N. JSTOR online article | The John Hopkins University Press. 1900 | A brief review of the letters and comments in the Jewish Messenger regarding the earlies Jewish Cemeteries in New York and the parties involved in purchasing the burial grounds. |
| USA | States of Remembrance: The historic Jewish Cemetery in Las Vegas. New Mexico | Herz.C | New Mexico Jewish Historical Society.1990 | The Montefiore cemetery was founded in 1881 |
| USA | The burials of Congregation Beth Israel.Macon.Georgia in William Wolff Cemetery and in the Hebrew burial ground | Kaufman.M.W. | Macon. GA 1983 | 112 pages. 6 plus cemeteries from 1844-1997 |
| USA | The cemeteries of Arcadia-Bar Harbor.ME. uniquelyacadia.com/cemeteries/composite_BHNorthEast_Acadia_cem_pdf | JCP.LLC Bennington NH.2016 | Free download. The cemeteries on the East side of Mt.Desert Island and north of Downtown Bar –Harbor- self guided tour | |
| USA | The Jewish cemeteries of New Hampshire | Segal.J | Jewish Cemetery Publishing.LLC 2010 | 20 Jewish cemeteries in the state are referred to including guidance on their maintenance and preservation. Cemetery data is listed |
| USA | The Jewish Cemetery Association of North America (JCANA). Jcana.org | JCANA Ongoing website with updates | The association aims are to raise awareness. preservation and the sanctity of Jewish cemeteries | |
| USA | The Jewish community of Early Colonial Nevis.A Historical and Archaeological study | Terrell.M | University Press of Florida.2004 | 208 pages. A research project to investigate the settlement and disappearance of the Sephardic Jewish community in Nevis. The research challenged earlier archaeological findings and emphasised the changing pressures and their effect upon the community who had fled earlier persecution under the Spanish inquisition. |
| USA | The old Jewish cemeteries of Charleston; S.C.A. | Elzas. B.A. | Daggett Printing Company. 1903 | Transcript of the inscription of the tombstones of Charleston Jewish Cemeteries 1762-1903 |
| USA | The Old Jewish Cemeteries of Newark | Gould.A.P | Avotaynu.2005 | The old Jewish cemeteries 1850s-end of the 20th century. Descendants comments. obituaries. pictures. documents are included |
| USA | The oldest tombstone inscription of Philadelphia and Richmond | Krohut.G.A. | American Jewish Historical Society No 6.1897 | Transcription of Jewish tombstone epitaph: Philadelphia 1753-1848-58; Richmond 1796-1824-5 |
| USA | The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society. https://www.jewishboston.com | Jewishheritageceneter.org Searchable data bases. The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center | Ongoing data base with archives and updates | A series of mainly free access data bases on Jewish records including: Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts 1775-2012; Sharon Memorial Park Cemetery 1945-2013; Jewish Cemeteries of Western Massachusetts 1647-1999 ( 1900 burials in 21 cemeteries)-requires membership; Charleston;SC;Inscriptions in Old Jewish Cemeteries 1762-1903 (searchable) |
| USA | Writing History Among the Tombstones: Notes from Har Hasetim. | Degura.A.S and Gorman Jr.D | The Graduate History Review 8.No 2019 | Online research paper to examine the project to preserve and interpret Har Hasetim. Gladwyne Jewish Memorial Cemetery. Pennsylvania ( 2015) |
| VENEZUELA | Efforts to establish a Jewish Cemetery in Nineteenth Century Caracas | Aizenberg.I | American Jewish Historical Quarterly Vol 67. No3. The John Hopkins University Press. JSTOR online | Description of the Jewish community in Caracas and their attempt to establish a burying ground during the 1840s. |
| WEST INDIES | Papers relating to the Jewish burial ground. Nevis. West Indies. Website-archiveshub.jisc.ac..uk | Online record of the sources for the collection | University Southampton University collection C 1971 GB738 MS 116/45 | List of tombstones among other documents. The tombstones form part of a re-consecration service in 1971 and speech given by the Prime Minister of St. Christopher Nevis. Antigua |