Burial Register of the Safed Cemetery – Names of Deceased in 1914-1962

Burial Register of the Safed Cemetery – Names of Deceased in 1914-1962

Three notebooks documenting the names of those buried in the Safed cemetery, in 1914-1962. Some of the records include the location of the burial plot.
The present notebooks serve as a most important source of information (some of which is not known from any other source), and contain records of close to one thousand names of Jews buried in the Safed cemetery in those years.
Almost all the records contain the name of the deceased, his father's name, and the date of death (or burial), and some include the surname, hometown and cause of death. One of the notebooks documents the locations of the graves.
The Safed cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Eretz Israel. Some of the graves date back to the time of the Tana'im and Amora'im, Geonim and Rishonim. Ongoing neglect, earthquakes, floods and other causes resulted in many graves and headstones getting lost over the years. Additionally, the neglect gave rise to the phenomena of unsupervised burials without headstones (hence the importance of the present notebooks, which can help identify unknown burial plots and gravestones which have faded over time). A massive restoration project of the cemetery was undertaken during the early 1990s, and it continues until this day.
The present notebooks were written by R. Yosef Tzvi Geiger and his son R. Eliyahu Geiger, who were the heads of the Chevra Kaddisha in the city. Leaves with additional notes are enclosed. The notebooks also include various notes handwritten by R. Yosef Tzvi Geiger.
3 notebooks + additional leaves. Size and condition vary. Altogether over 145 written pages, some closely written in tiny hand.

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