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17-594: Bull Street Cemetery was a Jewish cemetery established in Savannah , Province of Georgia , in 1733. Today, a memorial in the median of West Oglethorpe Avenue , at Bull Street , erected in 1983 by the trustees of the Mordecai Sheftall Cemetery , marks the former location of the cemetery, which contained around twenty graves when it was built over around a century after it opened. The memorial says: "Original 1733 burial plot allotted by James Edward Oglethorpe to

34-461: A Jewish custom. Showing proper respect for the dead ( kevod ha-met ) is intrinsic to Jewish law. The connection between the soul and the human body after death is an essential aspect of Jewish belief in the eternity of the soul . Thus, disinterring the dead, deriving benefit from a corpse or grave, or acting in any way that may be perceived as "ridiculing the helpless" ( l'oeg l'rash ), such as making derogatory remarks or joking, but also partaking in

51-447: 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 small 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 because in Jewish religion it is perceived specifically as

68-405: A cemetery. To ensure that the requirements for Jewish burial are met and that each member of the community is afforded a proper burial, Jewish communities establish burial societies known as the chevra kadisha , 'Holy Society', to provide these services free of charge. In larger Jewish communities, cemeteries are sometimes subdivided into sections according to the chevra kadisha that uses and

85-560: Is responsible for that section of the cemetery's care and upkeep. Early Jewish cemeteries were located outside of the city. In the Diaspora , it is traditional to bury the dead with the feet in the direction of Jerusalem . Some findings showed that the dead would be buried with a handful of soil from the Holy Land. The tombstones usually have inscriptions in Hebrew and the regional language. During

102-545: Is to document every Jewish burial site in the world. The Lo Tishkach European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative was established in 2006 as a joint project of the Conference of European Rabbis and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany . It aims to guarantee the effective and lasting preservation of Jewish cemeteries and mass graves throughout the European continent. The ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative

119-590: The Art Nouveau style. Some of them memorials and symbolic graves for Holocaust victims. Other memorial gravestones belong to well known people in various fields such as: politics, culture and industry. Among the notable families are: Petschek, Waldes family that the last pieces of art made by the important Czech sculptor Josef Václav Myslbek , creator of the Wenceslas Square famous statue of St. Wenceslas and Bondy family. Other notable people buried there are

136-872: The Chatam Sofer Memorial (part of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Bratislava ). The Jewish cemetery of Siret is considered one of the oldest cemeteries in Eastern Europe , its foundation is dated around 1500. Founded in 1832, the Jewish Cemetery of Coro , in Venezuela is the oldest Jewish cemetery in continuous use in the Americas . The mission of the International Jewish Cemetery Project

153-679: The Nazi Germany regime, Jewish cemeteries all over Europe were destroyed and desecrated; for this reason, some cemeteries have therefore also become Holocaust memorials, such as the cemetery in the Warsaw Ghetto . The largest Jewish cemeteries of Europe can be found in Budapest , Łódź , Prague , Warsaw , Vienna and Berlin . Other Jewish cemeteries in Europe include the Jewish Cemetery in Khotyn and

170-713: The Savannah Jewish Community." On November 3, 1761, George III "conveyed a certain half lot of land in Holland Tything, Percival Ward, to David Truan." This land was at the northwest corner of today's Bull Street and Oglethorpe Avenue. Several Jews were interred here before the family cemeteries were established. To honor the services of Benjamin Sheftall, one of the original forty or so Jews who arrived in Savannah on July 11, 1733, South Broad Street (as Oglethorpe Avenue

187-426: The autors Franz Kafka , Jiří Orten , Ota Pavel , František R. Kraus , Arnošt Lustig , and Lenka Reinerová . artists Jiří Kars and Max Horb who's tomb was designed by Jan Štursa in the form of a mourning peacock, singers Ladislav Blum and Rabbi Gustav Sicher. In 2001, a symbolic tomb was unveiled in the open area of the new section, containing remains exhumed from the site of Prague's oldest Jewish cemetery, in

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204-611: The capacity to serve for a century. But in 1920 and 1933 it was expanded and a new ceremonial hall was built too. There is also a specially designated area for urns, though the Jewish tradition does not allow cremation . The cemetery is still in use today and operated by the Jewish Community in Prague. The cemetery has today two ceremonial halls. The first and oldest one that was designed by architects Bedřich Münzberger and Alfons Wertmiler,

221-445: The pleasures or needs of the living, such as eating, drinking or smoking, are forbidden in the presence of the dead. Showing proper respect for the dead also requires a prompt burial , the waiver of certain rabbinic restrictions on Shabbat and religious holidays to ensure proper care of the dead, the ritual cleaning ( tahara ) and dressing of the body in shrouds ( tachrichim ) before burial, as well laws concerning proper conduct in

238-504: Was built between 1891 and 1893. It is located at the highest part of the cemetery next to the entrance. Behind it is the ''bejt tahara'' (house of purification) and a mortuary designed in a classic style, that is used by the Funeral society. The second ceremonial halls was built at the new eastern area that was built in 1933 in a functionalist style by architect Leopold Ehrmann . In the cemetery there are around 25,000 preserved gravestones in

255-651: Was established in 1890 to relieve the space problem at the Old Jewish cemetery in Žižkov , where the Žižkov Television Tower now stands. As of 1964 it is seclared as a cultural munument. The cemetery that was founded in 1899 was officially opened on July 6, 1890, Even though the first funeral took place two days earlier. The cemetery was designed to be 10 times bigger than the Old Jewish Cemetery in Josefov and provides space for approximately 100,000 graves, therefore having

272-653: Was established in 2015 as a German-based nonprofit. It received the initial grant of 1 million euros from German government in 2015 In November 2018 the EJSF received a European Union grant for a mass survey project of Jewish burial sites using drones. In December 2019 further funding was granted for a new 2019-2021 project "Protecting the Jewish cemeteries of Europe: Continuation of the mapping process, stakeholders’ involvement and awareness raising". New Jewish Cemetery, Prague The New Jewish Cemetery ( Czech : Nový židovský hřbitov ) in Žižkov , Prague , Czech Republic,

289-561: Was originally known) was extended to include within its bounds the unmarked burial of Sheftall's mother. The burial ground was closed in the first half of the 19th century, with some of the headstones that would otherwise have been discarded used as doorsteps at homes in the neighborhood. Jewish cemetery 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

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