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Gürçesme Cemetery, Rabbinical Burials Section, Izmir, TURKEY, 188 burials total.
Rabbis Buried in Izmir, Turkey
Cemetery Description
This data set includes 187 rabbis buried in Izmir, Turkey between 1540 and 1860 (5300 – 5620). Records include works that the rabbi authored. The information came from David Tsion LANIADO's book “Dedicated to the Aleppo Saints”, Jerusalem, 1952.
The index was compiled by Mathilde A. Tagger.
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the tremendous contributions and lifelong dedication of Mathilde Tagger, z"l, who made this index available. For many years, and right until her untimely death, Mathilde Tagger was a very close friend and collaborator with Jeff Malka. Together they worked to promote Sephardic genealogy research and educate the public about its enormous potential.
In addition, we express our grateful appreciation to Dr. Jeff Malka for his monumental ongoing effort to collect and make accessible Sephardic genealogical information, and for his generosity in contributing his extraordinarily valuable collection to JewishGen.
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