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RESEARCH IN JEWISH CEMETERIES IN FRANCE

Jewish cemeteries are an important source of genealogical data. Therefore our members are strongly encouraged to list gravestones and to publish the lists in printed as well as in electronic form.

First our most recent publication :

 The ROSENWILLER Cemetery Register

At 25 km SW of Strasbourg, the Rosenwiller Jewish Cemetery, founded in the later 14th century, contains graves of Jews from several villages in Lower-Alsace, which had no cemeteries of their own (see the list of these villages). The officers of the Jewish nation in Alsace,  Moyse Blien and Aaron Meyer from Mutzig, Jacob Baruch Weyl from Obernai, Lehmann Netter from Rosheim, Cerf Beer from Medelsheim for instance are buried there as well as many other important personalities. The late Robert WEYL has published (Strasbourg 1988) the pictures and inscriptions of some 50 graves in his book Le Cimetière Juif de Rosenwiller (L005 in our Library). 

The Cercle de Genealogie Juive was eager to contribute to keeping the memory of this place where a large part of the Jewish History in Alsace is recorded.

 The burial register of the cemetery, beginning with the year 1753, contains the records of some 5588 tombs. The CGJ has concluded an agreement with the Strasbourg Jewish Consistory in order to secure  in common the transcription and publication of this register. This register tops the collection of research tools in Alsatian genealogy already made available to the public by our Society.

For further details about this book and to order it, click here

Please note that a lecture about this cemetery was given on November 4, 2002 by A. MALTHETE who is in charge of this work (see Cassettes). In Issue # 83 of our Journal, Georges HALBRONN discusses the present status of the work and shows a few pictures of gravestones.

OTHER CEMETERIES

Studies of many cemeteries are in progress or already published.

 

WORKS PUBLISHED BY THE CGJ
 (the numbers between brackets are our library reference)

Les cimetieres israelites de Moselle par Jean-Pierre BERNARD - 2 volumes: (Vol  I: 397 pages; Vol II: 373 pages) CGJ 2002 ( L 195 in our Library).

Price :74 Euros  plus postage dues. Details here

Listing of the gravestones of 50 Jewish cemeteries of 44 villages of the French "departement" of Moselle (list of the villages). An index of 14,500 names is given.

 

Le cimetiere israelite regional de Luneville (1759-1998)

 by Sylvain and Françoise JOB, Claude FREUND (with the collaboration of Jean Ginsburger and Jean-Pierre Bernard). 80 pages – 2nd édition Paris, 1999 ( B217 in our Library).

 Price : 15 Euros  plus postage dues. Details here.

Old Picture of the Lunéville cemetery and a few pictures of gravestones. Map of the cemetery and location of the tombs in the corresponding squares. Index of family names. Map of the now vanished Jewish cemetery of Rosieres-aux-Salines.

 One thousands tombs, more than 1200 names, including those of soldiers killed for France, have been listed. The corresponding deaths were recorded at Luneville, Baccarat, Charmes, Donnelay, Herbeviller, Rosieres-aux-Salines, Vic sur Seille and other villages. Each tomb is identified by the corresponding square, the row and a grave number. The surname and given name(s) of the deceased are listed, as are those of the eventual spouse, the death date and place, the age at death and the existence of an inscription in Hebrew. An alphabetical name index makes it easier to find a tomb.

 These data are complemented by those of the vital records and a list of ruined tombs. It is at the same time a work to preserve the memory of the cemetery and a genealogical tool. It allows us to evaluate the successive arrivals of newcomers to Luneville: first the people from Alsace-Lorraine after 1871, then the Eastern European immigrants, mainly after WW1, and finally of the “repatriated” from North Africa after 1962. 

PARISIAN CEmetERIes – JEWISH SECTIONS  by Gilles PLAUT

Gilles PLAUT is systematically listing the gravestones in all Parisian cemeteries where there is a Jewish section. Two of his works have been published by the CGJ:

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise : Division israelite (Division 7)( B233)

168 pages, Price: 17 Euros plus postage dues. Details here

Cimetière de Montmartre : division 3 ( B232)

184 pages, Price: 17 Euros, plus postage dues. Details here.
The names and all data concerning vital records have been copied from each tomb and an alphabetical index has been made, making the searching much easier. 

 Moreover Gilles PLAUT has listed other cemeteries. These works are available directly from the author and can be consulted in our library.

Cimetière du Pere-Lachaise (Division 96) with index ( L182)
Cimetière du Pere-Lachaise
(Division 97) with index (B233) 
Cimetière du Montparnasse (Division 5) with index ( B198 and 198i)
Cimetière du Montparnasse (Division 24) with index ( B199 and 199i)
Cimetière du Montparnasse (Division 25) with index (L185)
Cimetière du Montparnasse (Division 26) with index ( B257)
Cimetière du Montparnasse (Division 28) with index ( B238)
Cimetière du Montparnasse (Division 30) with index ( L145)
Cimetière Parisien de Pantin (Division 8) with index (B265)   
Cimetière Parisien de Pantin (Division 24) with index (B275)   
Cimetière Parisien de Pantin (Divisions 29 and 29bis) with index (L216)  
Cimetière Parisien de Pantin (Division 34) with index (L223) 
Cimetière Parisien de Pantin (Division 34 bis) with index (B309)  
Cimetière Parisien de Pantin (Division 39) with index (L242)   
Cimetière Parisien de Pantin (Division 39 bis) with index(B312)    
Cimetière Parisien de Pantin (Division 44 bis) with index (B310)   
Cimetière Parisien de Pantin (Division 101) with index (B315)   
Cimetière Parisien de Bagneux(Division 1) with index (L249)   
Cimetière de Passy (All Divisions) with index  (B317)
Cimetière de Montmartre (Division 2) with index (B272)
Cimetière de la Villette (B319)
Cimetière de Belleville, with index (B318)
 

Gilles Plaut has also published listings for the cemeteries of La-Ferte-sous-Jouarre and Anet-sur-Marne, without index (B267), and for Horbourg-Wihr and Orbey, with an index (B240). He recently published one for Colmar (B307).

CEMETERIES OF LYONS: the listing of the "La Mouche" cemetery has been published in 2003 by Etienne TROLLER and Manuela WYLER. More than 4900 gravestones (see Library)

CEMETERIES of MARSEILLES

Fabrice NATHAN has given to our Library (see Library) the following document :

Historique et relevé des cimetières juifs de Marseille (1994) ( B110)

CEMETERY SAINT-EUGENE at ALGIERS

The last registry of the Algiers' Saint-Eugene cemetery has been restored and copied by Mrs Line Meller.
This registry which spans the period from June 1941 to May 2001, usually provides, for each burial :
- the date
- the family name and given name of the person buried
- the given name of the buried person's father
- the buried person's age
- the husband's name if it is a married woman
- the class of the burial
- the zone of the tomb
- the address of buried person
- whether the was a coffin or not.

Jean-Paul Durand and Philippe Danan have digitalized this registry and they made an index. Click here to see it

To obtain a copy of a page of this register, just send a written request to Cercle de Généalogie Juive, 45 rue La Bruyère – 75009 Paris, France and specify a name and a date. Please also send (with a check on a French Bank or with your Credit Card Number) an amount of 3 euros (2 euros if you are a member of CGJ) for each name and date, with a minimum of 6 euros per order.

The money thus collected, after deduction of our postal charges, will help to support actions related to the Algerian judaism, such as a rehabilitation of Saint-Eugène cemetery, a gift to the synagog Ribach & Rachbats of Netanya through Mr Simon Darmon, or anything of similar purpose.

 

If you click on Library and search for the word cimetière (in French) in the title or Ci in the subject, you get circa fifty answers, one half of which correspond to listings of gravestones in cemeteries. 

OTHER WORKS

The CEMETERY of HEGENHEIM


The listing of the gravestones of Hegenheim, awaited for two or three years, has just been published. It is a superb work : 144 pages, list of names, death dates, position and pictures of the graves, color map of the cemetery, and a cederom. It can be obtained from Mrs Léa ROGG - 9 rue des Coteaux, 68220 Hégenheim, France. Price 24.00 euros plus postage.

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The CEMETERY of NANCY


Our
member Claude LEVY-LAMBERT tell us that the Jewish cemetery of Nancy, 2 av. de Boufflers, has a repertory put in a box near the entrance. This repertory, last edition July 21, 2005 yields several thousands of graves, listed by alphabetical order of the deceased, with the maiden names for married women, birth and death year and localization in the cemetery. Moreover, it is written : "people who wish to analyze this document can contact the office of the (Jewish) Community at phone number (++33) 3 83 32 10 67