The Jewish cemeteries of Essaouira are in the city of

Essaouira Essaouira ( ; ar, الصويرة, aṣ-Ṣawīra; shi, ⵜⴰⵚⵚⵓⵔⵜ, Taṣṣort, formerly ''Amegdul''), known until the 1960s as Mogador, is a port city in the western Moroccan region of Marakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. It ha ...

, Morocco. They include the old cemetery which is located by the sea and the new cemetery located opposite the old one.

Old cemetery

The old cemetery, also called the marine cemetery, is separated from the ocean by a single wall. It has 2400 tombstones all made of rocky stones, the oldest of which date from 1775. Very visited because it hosts the mausoleum of Rabbi Ḥaim Pinto, the old cemetery served until around 1875 as the main cemetery of the city which had a large Jewish community. File:Haim Pinto Essaouira.jpg, Tribute to the Rabbis of the city File:Old Jewish cemetery of Essaouira.jpg, Mausoleum of Rabbi Haim Pinto File:Cimetières juifs Essaouira 29092020 049.jpg, Tombstones of the old cemetery

New cemetery

The new cemetery was founded in 1892, located opposite the old one. However, in 2010,

Edmond Amran El Maleh Edmond Amran El Maleh ( ar, إدمون عمران المالح) (30 March 1917 – 15 November 2010) was a Moroccan Jewish writer of Berber extraction. Biography El Maleh was born in Safi, Morocco to a Jewish Berber family. He moved to Paris ...

was buried in the old cemetery at his request. File:Cimetières juifs Essaouira 29092020 002.jpg, Tribute to the founders of the new cemetery File:Cimetières Juifs Essaouira wykmn 004.jpg, Tombstones of the new cemetery File:Cimetières Juifs Essaouira wykmn 002.jpg, Tomb of the son of Rabbi Haim Pinto

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