Jewish Cemeteries- an Annotated Bibliography Based on the Collections of the National Library, and the Library of the Ben Zvi Institute
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Mathilde A. Tagger Jewish Cemeteries- An Annotated Bibliography Based on the Collections of The National Library, and The Library of the Ben Zvi Institute Israel Genealogy Research Association Jerusalem, 2014 Introduction With an eye toward the 35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy to be held in Jerusalem in July, 2015 and wishing to help the participants develop more interesting genealogical sources, the bibliography of the 1997 edition has been completely revamped, updated and enlarged. The National Library has greatly increased its collection of literature on Jewish cemeteries since the first edition of this book. This present bibliography includes collections of books on cemeteries from the libraries of the Ben Zvi Institute and the Israel Genealogical Society. The Ben Zvi Institute, founded in Jerusalem in 1950 by the second president of the state of Israel, Yitzhak Ben Zvi, is dedicated to two major fields of research: Eretz Yisrael and the Sephardic and Misrachi communities. The Israel Genealogical Society, founded in 1986, has an extensive library primarily consisting of gift donations, and reference books purchased for the benefit of the entire membership. All the added references have been equally treated as in the first edition, so please read carefully the 1997 Edition Foreword that follows. The 1997 Edition Foreword The embryo of the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem was the "Midrash Abrabanel Library", formed in 1892 by the local B'nai Brith Lodge. With a collection of nearly 30,000 books it was renamed as "The Jewish National Library" in 1920. In 1925 the Library was incorporated into the Hebrew University and since then, known as "The Jewish National and University Library." (JNUL) The JNUL is the national library of the Jewish people. It collects and preserves manuscripts, incunabula and books and also non-book material like maps, written and recorded music, etc. - in Hebrew and other Jewish languages (Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo Arabic), and world literature about the Jewish people, its history and culture. Today, its holdings amount to three million books on all science subjects, including a very rich collection on Jewish topics. Its spectacular growth is due to the depository law of two copies of every title published in the country, to generous donations from all over the world and to the post-WW2 contribution of 200,000 items by "Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc." dealing with the rescue of cultural treasures confiscated by the Nazis. The present bibliography has been prepared in the framework of the worldwide Jewish Cemeteries Project conducted by the Jewish Genealogical Societies and as a contribution of the Israel Genealogical Society to the 5th International Seminar on Jewish Genealogy to be held in Paris in July 1997. This compilation is based on all the JNUL printed books on Jewish cemeteries (except: i. books dealing with Jewish sepulchral art in which photographs do not make for clear reading of inscriptions, ii. books dealing with archaeology, iii. books dealing with deciphering Hebrew initials and abbreviations in inscriptions). 181 books (of nearly 210 in the classified catalog) have been selected. They cover many towns in Europe, some in the American Continent, North Africa and the Middle East. This collection is multilingual, but over half was published in German and a great part of these books deal with cemeteries in Germany. The old Jewish cemetery of Prague is certainly the most "popular" cemetery with thirteen books. The Jewish cemeteries of some countries, like Brazil, Denmark or Sweden have been completely inventoried till the fifties of our century. A concise statistical analysis of this collection will point out the dimensions and value of this annotated bibliography. 2 The present work includes: 1 the complete bibliographical description of each item (Hebrew/Cyrillic books' titles are transliterated in Latin characters; words out of the text are put in rectangular brackets] 2 the English translation of the title, if necessary, 3 the book location in the JNUL. 4 the annotations on: 4.1 the number of graves, inscriptions or cited names, 4.2 the period covered by the graves, register or list, 4.3 all the graves (men and women)!only men/only Rabbis! outstanding personalities, 4.4 the cemetery location: town/village - country (English spelling if available, e.g:. not Firenze, Moskva or Wien, but Florence, Moscow or Vienna. The spelling of the other names are based on Mokotoff WOWW or Rand-McNally "Atlas of the World", 1993 ed, 4.5 biographies and/or genealogical trees, if any, 4.6 photographs of graves or portraits, 5 the book arrangement: 5.1 chronological or by cemetery row, 5.2 graves inscriptions or register lists, 5.3 index if any: alphabetical, chronological, general etc.. As many books deal with more than one town or village, it has been impossible to classify them according to a geographical key. This is why the whole bibliography is alphabetically arranged by authors names. A current number precedes each item. Two very useful geographical indexes follow the bibliography: 1. region/town/village - country 2. country - region/town/village Each entry in the indexes is followed by the number of the book to which it is related. A by-product of this project is the alphabetical list of the genealogical trees found in these books. Finally, let me please thank here the librarians of the JNUL Judaica Reading Room for their valuable support. 3 Statistical Analysis of the Bibliography Distribution of Elements Elements 1997 2004 % Books 181 245 135% Cemeteries ca400 ca500 125% Tombstones ca75,500 ca95,000 126% Countries 31 39 125% Localities/Regions 296 467 158% Family trees 94 112 125% Languages 18 18 100% Family Trees 94 117 124% Between 1997 and 2004 the bibliography has grown by 25% in all fields, except for the field of localities where the number has grown by more than 58%. This can be explained by the fact that several books deal with an entire region, detailing each and every locality. The number of languages - 18- in which the books are written remained steady. This is the list: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Yiddish. The 2004 bibliography contains: 84 books were written in German, 58 in Hebrew, 41 in English, 18 in Polish, 17 in French and the 27 remaining books in all the other languages. Abbreviations ad.t.-p .= added title-page incl .= includes/including ind= index alph.= alphabetical anal.= inscr. = inscriptions JNUL= Jewish Nat. analysis bibl.= bibliography and Univ. Library LBZI= Ben Zvi biogr. = biography cem = Institute Library LIGS= Library of the cemetery/ies chron. = Israel Gen.Soc. n.read. = not readable chronological order comm. = o.pers= outstanding personalities pers.= community compl. = complete persons photo. = photograph/s reg. = fam. = family geneal. = register script. = scripture tbst. = genealogical tree hist. = history tombstones/graves transl. = translation Hol. = Holocaust victims 4 THE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Adas Israel Cemetery in Washington, D.C.: Burials 1870-1919. Washington, D.C,. 1991 24p. JNUL 92M17 Notes: 231 inscr., 1870-1919, mci. names+ parent/spouse name+ birth date/place+ death date/cause(if existing)+ tbst. condition. Washington, D.C.- USA. 2. Almantzi, J.: Avnei zikaron. Prague, 1841. l09p. (Hebrew), ([Toledo] Memorial stones). JNUL S29V4809. Notes: 76 tbst. (some n.compl.), 1340-1471, Based on a manuscript, Added notes by Shmuel David Luzzatto. Toledo - Spain 3. Der alte Judenfriedhof in Prag. Prague, 192? l2p. (German), (The old Jewish cemetery in Prague,). JNUL 29V4821. Notes: 13 names and biogr., 1439-1613. Prague - Czech Rep. 4. Alvares Vega, L.: The Beth Haim of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel: Images of a Portuguese- Jewish cemetery in Holland. Assen, 1979. 60p., illus.(Dutch & English) JNUL 80B1001. 1994 newed. JNULS96B4161. Notes: 59 tbst., 1614-1750, +3 tbst., 1864-1892, Portuguese Jews hist. in Holland, Cern. plan. Amstel/Amsterdam - Holland 5. Antiquitates judaicae pragenses; kurze erlaeuternde Notizen. Prague, 1900,l3p. (German & Latin title) (Jewish antiques in Prague; short explanatory notes). JNULS77B 1722. Notes: 18 tbst., 1476-1787, Rabbis short biogr. Prague- Czech Rep. 6. Attal, R. Beit ha-Haim ha-yehudi ha-yashan be-tunis. Peamim, no.67, 1996 p.25-39. (Hebrew) [The old Jewish Cemetery in Tunis] JNUL PA11796 Notes: 8 tbst. Rabbi + their photo.: Abraham haCohen (1775), Abraham Aben Mussa (1741), Moshe Darmon (1741), Abraham Taieb (1741), Isaac Lumbrozo (1752), Messod Rafael Alfassi (1774), Joseph Bismuth (1775), Eliahu Gabizon (1795).Tunis, Tunisia 7. Babalikashvili, N.I.: Evreiski nadpisi v Gruzii, XVIII-XIX vv. Tbilisi36 .1971 ,p,. illus. (Russian), (Jewish inscriptions in Georgian Republic, I8th-19th centuries) JNUL 72B1125. Notes: List 100 tbst., 1756-1890, Chron., Hebrew inscr. anal. and Russian transl. Georgian Rep. 8. Baden. Oberrat des Israeliten. Bericht ueber die letzten Ruhestaetten der am 22.10.1940nach Suedfrankreich deportierten badischen Juden. Karlsruhe, 1958. 68p. (German), (Report on the last peaceful resting places of Baden Jews who were deported to the South of France on 22.10.1940). JNULS58B 1656. Notes: 5617 names, 1940-1944, Hol. alph. list by camps: Gurs, Noe, Recebedou, Rivesaltes, St.- Simon, Some lists incl. birth dates/places. Gurs, Noe, Recebedou, Rivesaltes, St.-Simon - France 5 9. Bar-Giora Bamberger, N.: Der juedische Friedhof in Celle: Memorbuch. Wuerzburg, 11991, 445p., illus., port. (German & Hebrew title), (The Jewish cemetery in Celle: aMeniorial book). JNULS2°93B2043 Notes: 289 tbst., 1789-1935, +18 tbst., 1943-1953:Chiefly Hol., Ind:. fam. name+death date, Ind.: name+ death date + tbst. no., Ind :.row+name+death date+tbst.no., Chron. ind.: death date+name+tbst. no, Ind:. birthplaces (some outside Germany), Geneal. : Enoch, Gans, Daniel families, Bibl. Celle - Germany 10. Bar-Giora Bamberger, N.: Der juedische Friedhof in Hoechberg: Memorbuch. Wuerzburg, 1991. 445p., illus.,port. (German text & Hebrew title), (TheJewish cemetery in Hoechberg [Bayern]: a Memorial book).