International Association of Jewish
Genealogical Societies - Cemetery Project
SPAIN
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
Jewish Community in Spain [October 2000]: http://www.haruth.com/JewsSpain.html
http://www.sephardicstudies.org/toledo.html
[September 2002]
http://www.sephardicstudies.org/islam.html
[September 2002]
http://www.sephardicstudies.org/intro.html
[September 2002]
Tagger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography.
Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.
ü Hebrew Title (Stone engravings...on tombstones and
inscriptions), by E. Carmoli. Paris, 186?. Pages 19-40, Hebrew. 26V255.
Notes: 50 inscriptions, 903-1675 (some no date), chronology, rabbis and
some rabbis' wives, and citation of books where the inscriptions were
found.
Las inscripciones hebraicas de Espana (Hebrew inscriptions in
Spain) by F. Cantera y Burgos. Madrid, 1956. 471 pages, Spanish. S2
57B21. Notes: 295 + 1 tombstone, ca. 1300-1437 & 1616, chronology
by provinces, index of personal names, index of burial places, index
tombstone order, scripture/style analysis.
THE CEMETERIES
BALEARIC ISLANDS: see MAJORCA
BARCELONA:
The Hall of Archives in the Provincial
Archaeological Museum was constructed from tombstones taken from
abandoned Jewish cemeteries, the Hebrew inscriptions still visible.
- Parc de Montjuch: Overlooking the western section of
Barcelona is Montjuich ("Mountain of the Jews" in Catalan) named for
the 11th and 12th century extensive Jewish property holdings. Along
that slope is the ancient century Jewish cemetery abandoned after the
massacres of 1391 and a 12th-century hilltop fortress, now a public
park. Some tombstones are in a special room of the Historical Museum of
Barcelona in the city's Old Gothic quarter. Source: Israelowitz, Oscar.
Guide to Jewish Europe. Brooklyn, NY: Israelowitz Publishing, 1995, p. 288-9. [October 2000]
CAZORLA:
http://www.cassorla.net/Cazorla.html [October 2005]
GERONA:
"The Jewish cemetery was on the hillside known as Montjuich". Source: Israelowitz, Oscar. Guide to Jewish Europe. Brooklyn, NY: Israelowitz Publishing, 1995, p. 291. [October 2000]
GIBRALTAR:
See Middle East - Mediterranean Sea Section: GIBRALTAR
GUADALAJARA:
The cemetery, near the Hospital Provincial and
Calle de Madrid, is the burial place of Moses de Leon (1240-1305), who
wrote "Sefer ha-Zohar." Source: Israelowitz, Oscar. Guide to Jewish Europe. Brooklyn, NY: Israelowitz Publishing, 1995, p. 292. [October 2000]
MAJORCA: BALEARIC ISLANDS
The Church of El Temple, near
which the Jewish cemetery was situated, also was the first a synagogue.
In 1976, the Jewish community purchased more than an acre at Santa
Eugenia, twelve miles from Palma (where they hold religious services in
a hotel) for cemetery purposes. [1984]
MONTJUICH: see Barcelona
PONTEVEDRA:
- Campa Do Xudeus: Pontevedra's Jewish cemetery in the Middle Ages was located in the triangular Plaza Santa Maria
SEGOVIA:
A pine forest was once a Jewish cemetery where tombs have been discovered.
- El Fonsario: supposedly existed in the Valley of Clamores, below the city wall of the Juderia. Source: Israelowitz, Oscar. Guide to Jewish Europe. Brooklyn, NY: Israelowitz Publishing, 1995, p. 295. [October 2000]
SEVILLE:
- Part of Sevilla's Christian burial ground in the Macarena
district is an ancient Jewish section with tombstones from the 13th and
14th century. Source: Israelowitz, Oscar. Guide to Jewish Europe. Brooklyn, NY: Israelowitz Publishing, 1995, p. 296. [October 2000]
TOLEDO:
BOOKS:
"El Transito Synagogue and the Sephardic
Museum have a fine collection of Jewish tombstones from Spain. Some of
the newly found tombstones (from Valencia, Leon, Seville, and Merida,
in particular) date from the Arab conquest of Spain and bear Arabic
inscriptions." [Source ?]
Avnwi zikaron (Memorial stones).
76 tombstones texts from Tolitula [Toledo] collected five and
six hundred years ago by Almantgi, Yosef; Prague, 1841. 1O9p,
(Ancient manuscript print version. Added notes by Shemuel David Lutsato)
Hebrew); Notes: Coverage 1240-1471. 76 tombstones, some without names/date.
Source: National and University Library, Jerusalem
UPDATE: The above mentioned inscriptions
of seventy-six tombstone "that were engraved on the graves of Rabbis
and Notabilities who lived in Toledo six hundred years ago" are now
online at:
http://www.sephardicstudies.org/toledo.html [June 2002]
Rapport sur les inscriptions hebraiques de l'Espagne
(Report on the Hebrew inscriptions in Spain), by M. Schwab. Paris,
1907. 193 pages, photographs, French. S25V13792. Notes: 172 tombstones
(86 in Toledo), 3rd-14th centuries, men and women, based on Almantsi
and S. D. Luzzatto books, chronology by places, Jewish population,
history, some genealogy (details in genealogy index), biographies,
general index. Source: National and University Library, Jerusalem
Nuevo hallazgo de una inscripcion sepulcral hebraica en Toledo
(A Hebrew grave inscription newly discovered in Toledo) In: Boletin de
la Real Academia de la Historia, t.67, 1915. 8 pages, Spanish. 29V4853.
Notes: one inscription, 1349, inscriptions analysis Source: National
and University Library, Jerusalem
- An ancient cemetery exists on the road to the current Catholic
cemetery behind Instituto de Ensenanza Media at Cerro de la Horca.
Source: Israelowitz, Oscar. Guide to Jewish Europe. Brooklyn, NY: Israelowitz Publishing, 1995, p. 300. [October 2000]
VITORIA:
- Judizmendi Cemetery: At the end of Olaguibel and Carlos
VII streets in the northern part of the city is a public park called
Judizmendi. Part of it was an ancient Jewish cemetery before 1492.
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