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The Jewish Cemetery of Funchal is a Jewish cemetery located in Rua do Lazareto, Funchal, Madeira. Sephardi Jews as well as Ashkenazi Jews are buried here.


History

The cemetery was built in 1851, the last burial took place in 1976. Jews from Morocco arrived in 1819 and set themselves up in the cloth and wine trades. The Abudarham family were involved in the Madeira wine industry from the early 1860s onwards. The Jewish community grew due to the
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to Madeira, which included a number of Jews, some of which are buried in the Jewish Cemetery. Tito Benady, a historian on Gibraltar Jewry, noted that when some 200 Jews from
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were evacuated as non combatants to Funchal, Madeira, at the start of
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, they found a Jewish cemetery that belonged to the Abudarham family. The same family after whom the Abudarham Synagogue in Gibraltar was named.


Interments

* Salomon Abudarham * Clara Abudarham * Reina Abudarham * Joseph Abudarham * Simy Abudarham * Rafael Menahem Abudarham * Jacob Abudarham * Fortunato Abudarham * Messod Alazar * Mary Athias * Emma Bach * Samuel Benady * Dona Bentata * Rosa Benyunes * Abraham Benzecry * Jeannette Edith Boujou * Joana Sultan Camara * David Cohen * Ester Esnaty * Haim Esnaty * Moises Ezagui * Adolphus Friesner * Albert Morse Goldberg * Ester Hassan * Hermann Horwitz * Willy Alexander Katz * Mordejay Labos * Estrela Labos * Harry Harry Lorie * Margit Neugarten * Abraham Robins * Menahem Rodriguez Mercado * Mordechai Rodriguez Mercado * Pauline Plinette Schnitzer * Gilbert Schnitzer * Willy Schnitzer * Ferdinand Schwartzschild * Baruj Tobelem


Gallery

Image:Cemitério Judaico, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.jpg Image:Funchal Bay from East, Madeira, c. 1900.jpg Image:Placa na porta do Cemitério Judaico, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.jpg


See also

* Synagogue of Funchal *
History of the Jews in Madeira The history of the Jews in Madeira spans the entire length of the history of Madeira itself. The history of Madeira begins with the discovery of the islands by Portugal in 1419. Madeira is presently officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira ('' ...


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* {{Find a Grave cemetery 1851 establishments in Portugal Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Africa Cemeteries in Madeira Funchal Gibraltarian diaspora Jewish cemeteries in Portugal Jews and Judaism in Madeira Moroccan diaspora in Europe Moroccan-Jewish diaspora Sephardi Jewish culture in Africa