Old Jewish Cemetery Lublin - Stary Cmentarz Żydowski w Lublinie

At present, the old Jewish cemetery in ul.Kalinowszczyzna covers an area of about 1 hectare. Of the 3,000 gravestones, which were densely arranged over the entire area of the hill, only about 60 have survived to this day. However, there are still many gravestones of people who were particularly meritorious for the Jewish community in Lublin. The Matzewa of the learned Talmudist Jaakov Kopelman, who died in 1541, is the oldest Jewish tombstone in Poland and stands in its original place. Nearby is a tombstone of the Seer of Lublin (died 1815), renovated and secured with a contemporary open ohel. It is considered the älst preserved in its entirety tombstone of a tzadik in Poland. The group of gravestones preserved in the old cemetery in Lublin reflects the processes of development of Jewish funerary art from the first half of the 16th century to the 1930s.

übersetzt aus: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews