JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. ENDINGEN-LENGNAU CEMETERY/SWITZERLAND
Sunday, Tammuz 11, 5776. July 17, 2016.
Shalom! World.
About one half mile from Lengnau, in the direction of Endingen, is the old Jewish cemetery. It is recognized by a cluster of trees, on the right side of the road, and is surrounded by a stone wall. During the first years of settlement in Lengnau, the Jews were forbidden to bury their dead in Switzerland. As the only place in Switzerland where Jews were allowed to settle from the 17th to the 19th centuries, they had to travel north to the Rhine River, and bury their dead on an island in the middle of the river, known as Juden Insle, Jews' Island.
Endingen-Lengnau - Verein fuer Erhaltung der Synagogen und des Friedhofs Endingen-Lengnau (The Association for the Preservation of the Synagogues and the Cemetery of - ) published a complete register of the burial sites, with name index and arranged by dates, supplemented by a volume of narrative which includes,among other documents and photographs, a facsimile of the first Jewish census of 1761. The in German books ara excellent and list all the people buried there. Then in 1750, established a cemetery halway between the two villages where some 2,700 persons have been buried to date.
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Shalom! Aleichem.
Suporte cultural: Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz.
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