Jewish cemeteries

India’s Oldest Hebrew Tombstone, Just Discovered

A 13th-century inscription.

Itamar Eichner
July 9 2024 12:01AM

Preserving the Jewish Graves of Old Vilna

Living cemeteries and dead ones.

Shnayer Leiman
June 17 2024 12:01AM

An American Jewish Soldier Who Was Buried among Germans Has Been Finally Given a Proper Resting Place

Nathan Baskind.

Nathan Baskind.
June 5 2024 12:01AM

Graves of Jewish Soldiers from World War I Found in Gaza

A long-awaited kaddish.

Troy Fritzhand
Feb. 2 2024 12:01AM

Uncovering the Lost Graves of Morocco’s Rabbinic Sages

Tétouan’s 500-year-old Jewish cemetery.

Georgia Gilholy
July 28 2023 12:01AM

Replacing the Crosses on the Gravestones of American Jews Who Died Fighting Fascism

Operation Benjamin.

Jamie Betesh Carter
May 30 2023 12:01AM

Crimean Jews’ Medieval Cemetery

The stone of Tmutarakan.

Matti Friedman
March 22 2023 12:01AM

Three Centuries Ago, Jewish Gravestones Were Used to Repair a Historic Landmark. In the 1960s, They Were Desecrated a Second Time

The columns of Ferrara.

Henry Abramson
Nov. 9 2022 12:01AM

An Ancient Solution to Israel’s Coming Cemetery Shortage

The ossuary.

Shlomo Brody
Oct. 26 2022 12:01AM

What the Jewish Practice of Visiting Cemeteries Can Teach 21st-Century America

The story of a ḥasidic pilgrimage site in a small town in New York.

Chaya Sara Oppenheim
Sept. 7 2022 12:01AM

Kyrgyzstan’s Lost Jewish Cemeteries

During World War II, nearly 40,000 Jews found their way to Bishkek.

Levi Bridges
Aug. 30 2022 12:01AM

Preserving a Jewish Cemetery amid the Yemeni Civil War

Over 160 years of history.

Times of Israel
Aug. 23 2022 12:01AM

Ancient Rome’s Jewish Catacombs

Even older than their Christian counterparts.

Saul Jay Singer
June 28 2022 12:01AM

An Ancient Convert’s “Cursed” Tomb

Iokobos and his funny Greek.

Amanda Borschel-Dan
June 10 2022 12:01AM
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