A project at a Santa Fe cemetery allows people to memorialize their loved ones, even when they are buried far away
Rokhl’s Golden City: Remembering the choir boys who worked in Jewish graveyards
As more Americans—including Jews—opt out of traditional burial, it’s worth considering the political significance of graveyards
Medieval stones offer a glimpse into the lives of 12th- to 13th-century Würzburg Jews, such as one who ‘served the Lord with his sweet voice,’ ‘Asher known as Bonfil,’ and ‘lady Rosa,’ who was ‘like a rose between thorns’
A new study of old Jewish cemeteries in Europe finds the epitaphs whispering at us
Remembering the old Jewish cemetery that once occupied the baseball shrine’s current parking lot
A small team of researchers are looking for 1,924 tombstones that were destroyed by the Nazis circa 1943
My father shares the family plot at the cemetery with my mother—and with his second wife, who broke up our family
Israeli President Rivlin visited desecrated graves in the Afghan section of the ancient burial ground on Monday
Muhammad Abdul Yassin has worked in Mumbai’s Jewish cemetery for more than 40 years. Now he’s passing the chisel to his sons.
Just months after Myslowice residents restored the town’s Jewish cemetery
A tour of the cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission reveals oases of calm—but few living visitors
At the newly trendy Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where half of the graves belong to Jews, a long history of criminal association lives on
Three cemeteries belonging to Shearith Israel, the oldest Jewish congregation in North America, are tucked away in Manhattan, a visible legacy of New York City’s long-ago Jewish past
Representations of women in Romania’s Jewish cemeteries
A photographer discovers Jewish gravestones at a tony golf course
Good for bike racers, bad for medieval souls