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unusual facts about Jewish cemetery


Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby

On 12 March 1622 he conveyed to the university of Oxford five acres of land, opposite Magdalen College, which had formerly served as a Jewish cemetery, for the encouragement of the study of physic and botany.


History of the Jews in Salzburg

After 1938, the synagogue and Jewish cemetery in Aigen were closed and many Jews either left Salzburg or were deported to concentration camps.


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Avraham Yehoshua Heshel

According to one hasidic legend, angels subsequently carried his body and buried him in the Holy Land, and in the Jewish Cemetery in Tiberias there is a stone marking his supposed grave.

Flevopark

The naturalist Jac. P. Thijsse envisioned a park between the Jewish Cemetery and the Nieuwe Diep.

Gary Svee

Swastikas were painted on a Native American family's home, Ku Klux Klan flyers were openly distributed, the Billings Jewish cemetery was descrated and a brick was hurled through the window of a Jewish family whose six year old son put the family's Menorah in it for Hanukkah.

Grand Choral Synagogue

On December 1, 1872, a Jewish cemetery was founded on the land south of the city, in Obukhovo.

Graniteville, Staten Island

Bisected from east to west by the Staten Island Expressway and with New York State Route 440 forming its western boundary, Graniteville's most notable landmark is Baron Hirsch Cemetery, an 80 acre (324,000 m²) Jewish cemetery founded in the late 19th century and still in active use; in August 2001 this cemetery became the focus of a local health-related story when it was one of six locations on the island where mosquitos carrying the West Nile virus were discovered.

Hainsfarth

The Jewish community in Hainsfarth originally buried their dead in the Jewish cemetery at Wallerstein.

Ikey Solomon

Solomon died on 3 September 1850, and was buried the next day in the Jewish cemetery in Harrington Street, Hobart.

Janowska concentration camp

They would use this temporary freedom to dig up Torahs that had been hidden in Lwów's Jewish cemetery.

Jewish Cemetery of Diemen

The Jewish Cemetery of Diemen, or Joodse Begraafplaats Diemen in Diemen, is owned by the Jewish community of Amsterdam, which is a subsection of the "Nederlands Israëlitisch Kerkgenootschap".

Moses ben Isaac ha-Nessiah

The tombstone of a Rabbi Moses, son of Rabbi Isaac, was found at Ludgate, London, in the time of Elizabeth; John Stow, in his "Survey of London" stated that it came from the Jewish cemetery in Jewin Street at the time of the barons' revolt against King John in 1215.

Old Jewish Cemetery, Sarajevo

The OId Jewish Cemetery lies on Mount Trebevic, in the Kovačići-Debelo Brdo area, in the south-western part of Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Sylvan Friedman

A long-time member of Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim in nearby Alexandria, Louisiana, he is interred next to his wife, Elizabeth H. Friedman (October 12, 1912 – July 3, 1969), at the Jewish Cemetery in Natchitoches.

Touro Cemetery

Judah Touro, a philanthropist who was born and reared in Newport, contributed $40,000, an immense sum at the time, to the Jewish cemetery at Newport.

Yisroel Meir Gabbai

Placement of a plaque at the burial site of Rashi and other Rishonim, alerting visitors that an unmarked square in the city of Troyes, France is in fact part of an ancient Jewish cemetery