Obj. ID: 33805
Jewish Funerary Art New Jewish cemetery (part of the municipal cemetery) in Sibiu, Romania
The New Jewish Cemetery is a sector of the large municipal cemetery, founded in 1907 in the southern part of the city. The Jewish sector, surrounded by a fence is situated in the southernmost corner of the large municipal cemetery. A ceremonial hall built simultaneously with other buildings in the municipal cemetery and in the same style of the beginning of the 20th century, is situated along the western border of the sector. On its northern and southern sides, there are “arcades” for the richest graves.
There are about 500 tombstones in the cemetery, representing the mixed Jewish population of the city. There are graves of traditional form with traditional Hebrew epitaphs, sometimes with acrostic; other bear German or Hungarian epitaphs. A dozen graves of the Jewish soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army bear a depiction of a helmet and two sables. Romanian epitaphs appear only on gravestones from the period after WWII.
