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Jewish Cemetery (Währing)
Jewish Cemetery can refer to: *Jewish cemetery, a burial place for Jewish people *''The Jewish Cemetery'', a 1650s painting by Jacob van Ruisdael See also *Jewish Cemetery (Port Gibson, Mississippi) * Jewish Cemetery (Währing) *Jewish cemetery of Besançon *Jewish Cemetery of Coro * Jewish Cemetery (Khotyn) *Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw * Jewish Cemetery (Roßau) *Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi * Jewish Cemetery (Beirut) * Jewish Cemetery (Worms) *Old Jewish Cemetery (Prague) *New Jewish Cemetery (Prague) *Jewish Cemetery (Kleinbardorf) *United Jewish Cemetery *Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery *Willesden Jewish Cemetery *Liberal Jewish Cemetery, Willesden *Golders Green Jewish Cemetery *Old Jewish cemetery, Chambersburg *West Ham Jewish Cemetery *Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati *Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries * Weißensee Cemetery *Touro Cemetery *Golden Hill Jewish Cemetery *Măeriște *Remuh Cemetery *Mount Zion Cemetery (New York City) * Baron de Hirsch Cemetery (Halifax), in Halifa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Cemetery
A Jewish cemetery ( he, בית עלמין ''beit almin'' or ''beit kvarot'') is a cemetery where Jews are buried in keeping with Jewish tradition. Cemeteries are referred to in several different ways in Hebrew, including ''beit kevarot'' (house of sepulchers), ''beit almin'' (eternal home) or ''beit olam aba'' (house of afterlife), the ''beit chayyim'' (house of the living) and ''beit shalom'' (house of peace). The land of the cemetery is considered holy and a special consecration ceremony takes place upon its inauguration. According to Jewish tradition, Jewish burial grounds are sacred sites and must remain undisturbed in perpetuity. Establishing a cemetery is one of the first priorities for a new Jewish community. A Jewish cemetery is generally purchased and supported with communal funds. Placing stones on graves is a Jewish tradition equivalent to bringing flowers or wreaths to graves. Flowers, spices, and twigs have sometimes been used, but the stone is preferred bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willesden Jewish Cemetery
The Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery, usually known as Willesden Jewish Cemetery, is a Jewish cemetery at Beaconsfield Road, Willesden, in the London Borough of Brent, England. It opened in 1873 on a site. It has been described as the "Rolls-Royce" of London's Jewish cemeteries and is designated Grade II on Historic England's Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The cemetery, which has 29,800 graves,23 members of the Rothschild family are buried in the cemetery. has many significant memorials and monuments. Four of them are listed at Grade II. They include the tomb of Rosalind Franklin, who was a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. In 2015, the United Synagogue, which owns and manages the cemetery, was awarded a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to restore some key features of the cemetery and to create a visitor centre, a permanent exhibition and a web-based education project. The cemetery's heritage project, House of Life, officially opened up the cem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron De Hirsch Cemetery (Halifax)
The Baron de Hirsch Cemetery, also known as the Beth Israel Synagogue Cemetery, is a Jewish cemetery located on west side of Windsor Street at the intersection of Connaught Avenue beside Fairview Cemetery in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It has been the burial ground of the congregation of the Beth Israel Synagogue of Halifax since 1893. History The Baron De Hirsch Hebrew Benevolent Society, named for the philanthropist, Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896), of Munich, sought to acquire land on the outskirts of Halifax for a local cemetery. The Culvie Farm property was purchased for that purpose on 20 June 1893, and the land was consecrated on 30 July 1893. Some changes to the boundaries of the cemetery were negotiated with the city in the 1950s due to the city's need to realign Windsor Street. The city provided additional property, but some original memorial walls had to be disassembled and moved. The new wall was dedicated on 30 September 1968. An anonymous donor s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Zion Cemetery (New York City)
Mount Zion Cemetery is a large Jewish cemetery located in Maspeth, Queens, New York City. The first burial was in 1893, and as of 2015, more than 210,000 individuals had been buried there. It is noted for its memorial to those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Its grounds cover approximately 78 acres, and are divided into hundreds of plots, or gates, by landsmanshaften, synagogues, or families. Notable burials * Herman M. Albert (1901–1947), lawyer, New York State Assemblyman * Birdie Amsterdam (1901–1996), lawyer, judge, and New York State Supreme Court] justice * William Cohen (? –1922), U.S. Army sergeant killed by troops of Pancho Villa on U.S. soil in the Glenn Springs raid * Bernard Drachman (1861–1945), rabbi * Morris Michael Edelstein (1888–1941), US Congressman * Isidore Einstein (1880–1938), federal agent in the Bureau of Prohibition * Abraham Harawitz (1879–1935), lawyer, New York State Assemblyman, Municipal Court Justice * Marvin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remuh Cemetery
The Old Jewish Cemetery of Kraków ( pl, Stary cmentarz żydowski w Krakowie), more commonly known as the Remah Cemetery ( pl, Cmentarz Remuh), is a historic necropolis established in the years 1535–1551, and one of the oldest existing Jewish cemeteries in Poland. It is situated at 40 Szeroka Street in the Kazimierz district of Kraków, beside the 16th-century Remah Synagogue. The cemetery bears the name of Rabbi Moses Isserles, whose name is abbreviated as Remah. The cemetery was closed in around 1850; the nearby New Jewish Cemetery at 55 Miodowa Street then became the new burial ground for the city's Jews. Izaak Jakubowicz, donor of the Izaak Synagogue, is also buried at the cemetery. During the German occupation of Poland, the Nazis destroyed the site by tearing down walls and hauling away tombstones to be used as paving stones in the camps, or selling them for profit. The tombstone of the Remah (Rabbi Moses Isserles) is one of the few that remained intact. The cemetery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Măeriște
Măeriște ( hu, Krasznahídvég; german: Bruckend) is a commune located in Sălaj County, Crișana, Romania. Geography The commune, with an area of 74.97 km2 (7,500 ha), is in the north-west part of the county, in the hydrographic basin of the river Crasna. It is composed of six villages: Criștelec (''Kerestelek''), Doh (''Doh''), Giurtelecu Șimleului (''Somlyógyőrtelek''), Măeriște (located at 43 km from Zalău), Mălădia (''Maladé'') and Uileacu Șimleului (''Somlyóújlak''). Tourism Among the commune's tourist sites are the Reformed Church, Uileacu Șimleului (a former Benedictine monastery), an architectural monument dated from 1260 to 1300, as well as other churches. The Doh church dates to 1869. The church in Mălădia was completed in 1908. It is 21 km from the projected Transylvania Motorway. Population According to the 2011 Romanian census, the commune had 3,037 inhabitants. According to the 2002 Romanian Census, the commune population is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Hill Jewish Cemetery
Golden Hill Cemetery is located at 5025 North 42nd Street in the North Omaha neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska. History The Chevra B'nai Israel Adas Russia purchased the land as a Jewish cemetery in 1888. The cemetery is part of the Orthodox Jewish community of Omaha. It is a small cemetery that takes up about one city block and is relatively full. A circular drive runs down the center of the cemetery. Notable burials * Rose Blumkin (1893–1998), the founder of the Nebraska Furniture Mart * The cemetery also has graves for Jewish soldiers and officers from Omaha who were killed in World War I, World War II, and other wars See also * History of the Jews in Omaha, Nebraska * List of cemeteries in Omaha * History of Omaha References External links Beth Israel Synagogue(Omaha, NE) – cemetery contact at International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR)at JewishGen JewishGen is a non-profit organizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touro Cemetery
:: Touro Synagogue Cemetery (also known as the Jewish Cemetery at Newport), dedicated in 1677, is located in the colonial historic district of Newport, Rhode Island, not far from the Touro Synagogue. Other Jewish graves are found nearby as part of the Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery on Farewell Street. The gated Touro Cemetery is at present opened to the public only once per year. History The cemetery was founded in 1677 or possibly earlier. In the Newport land records, a deed was recorded on 28 Feb 1677 for a certain parcel of land, 30 feet square, sold by Nathaniel Dickens to Mordecai Campannall and Moses Packechoe for a burial-place for the Jews of Newport, and this purchase may have been an addition to a cemetery that was already in existence as of that date. The synagogue is the oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States, and the cemetery is the second oldest Jewish cemetery in the country. The cemetery gates are decorated with torches turned to fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weißensee Cemetery
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Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries
The Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries are a group of 42 Jewish cemeteries in use since the 1920s on Baker Street in the West Roxbury section of Boston. The cemeteries are located on land that once formed part of Brook Farm, a 19th-century communal-living experiment. The series of small cemeteries are strung along both sides of a narrow access road at 776 Baker Street that leads only to the last of the small cemeteries. Each was owned and managed by an individual Boston-area congregation or Jewish organization. According to ''The Boston Globe'', "the Baker Street cemeteries are home to some of the city's most striking, albeit endangered, examples of historic religious architecture. Dotting the road are 10 chapel buildings about the size of one-room schoolhouses, perfectly rendered synagogues in miniature, with glorious stained glass, vaulted ceilings, ornate chandeliers, oak pulpits, and other vestiges of the final destination for members of a once-thriving immigrant community." Over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati
The Old Jewish Cemetery (also known as the Chestnut Street Cemetery and Bene Israel Burying Ground) in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the oldest Jewish cemetery west of the Allegheny Mountains. Opened in 1821, it is located just northwest of Downtown Cincinnati in the Betts-Longworth Historic District. It is situated just west of Central Avenue on the north side of Chestnut Street, in the historic West End. The cemetery is sited on a tiny plot enclosed by high walls and a locked gate. In 1821, when Benjamin Lieb was dying, he begged to be buried as a Jew. Morris Moses and Joseph Jonas, two of Cincinnati's six Jews, purchased the lot for Cincinnati's first Jewish cemetery from Nicholas Longworth for $75.00, and then buried Lieb there. The cemetery has 85 graves and has been closed since 1849 after the cholera epidemic filled the cemetery. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Ham Jewish Cemetery
West Ham Jewish Cemetery is a cemetery for Jews in West Ham in the London Borough of Newham, England. It was established in 1856 by the New Synagogue on Great St. Helen's, soon joined by the Great Synagogue in Duke's Place, both of them London congregations. Kadish, Sharman, ''Jewish Heritage in England: An Architectural Guide'', English Heritage, 2006, p. 35 There are a number of notable people buried here, in a graveyard visually dominated by the imposing Rothschild Mausoleum. One section contains graves removed to this burial place from the former Hoxton burial ground of the Hambro Synagogue when that site underwent urban redevelopment. The oldest legible tombstone in this section dates from 1794. Rothschild Mausoleum The Rothschild Mausoleum is circular, domed, mausoleum built in 1866 by Ferdinand James von Rothschild for his late wife Evelina de Rothschild who died in childbirth at age 27. The architect was Matthew Digby Wyatt. It is fashioned of marble in Renais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
