Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi

The Jewish cemetery of Chernivtsi is the cemetery of the Jews in the East Galician city of Czernowitz (now western Ukraine ).

Importance

The in 1866 at what is now Zelenastraße ( vul. Zelena ) furnished cemetery has a size of 14.2 acres. On it are about 50,000 graves, making it one of the largest preserved Jewish cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe.

The writer Eliezer stone Barg and Yuri Fedkowytsch were buried here. After the latter, the University of Chernivtsi is named. The singer and actress Sidi Tal and the first Jewish mayor of Chernivtsi, Edward Reiss, here found their final resting place. The Hasidic Rabbi Israel Friedmann, who is also buried here, had charisma well beyond Chernivtsi addition.

The cemetery contains graves from the First and Second World Wars. The ancient ceremony hall is forfeited their rehabilitation is planned for 2005. The protection from vegetation and weathering is taken over by local authorities and individuals. 2008 by Service Civil International organized workcamp took place, in which young volunteers the cemetery of over grown vegetation liberated. In the context of round and study trips, the cemetery is also a tourist destination.

The grave stones support German, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian and Ukrainian inscriptions and have the incomparably rich history of the city in East Central Europe.

" But is also true for the Czernowitz cemetery, which is to be read in a recent guide on Silesia: " The fact that Breslau was a German city, can be seen in the Jewish cemetery "How German ( Austro - ) " Little Vienna " on the Pruth once. was, in any case to see where the relics of a vanished reality can be admired today. "