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Obj. ID: 40067
Jewish Funerary Art
  Jewish Cemetery in Samara, Russia

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Sosensky, Ekaterina, 2021

The old Jewish cemetery in Samara has been demolished. The current cemetery, established in 1908, is situated next to the Tatar one, at Novouritskaia St. Its oldest parts were demolished in 1960 so that only a dozen pre-revolutionary tombstones are preserved. Among thousands of graves, there are the tombstones of the Rabbis Moshe Yehezkel (d. 1926), Yehuda Leib Palterovich (d. 1934) and Menahem Mendel Openstein (d. 1975). The latter, unusually combines a traditional inscription with a photograph of the deceased. Hebrew epitaphs disappeared from the tombstones already in the 1920s, but the Stars of David remained a common feature until the 1940s and sporadically appeared even in the early 1980s. A tombstone of 1995 presents another way of expression of Jewish identity: Russian letters in the epitaph are stylized as the Hebrew ones.

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Name/Title
Jewish Cemetery in Samara | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
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Date
Established in 1908
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Community type
Congregation
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Location
Russia | Samara (Самара)
| Yuzovskaia St. 2
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Material Cloth
Material Lining
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Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
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Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
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0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
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Number of Lines
Ruling
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Catchwords
Hebrew Numeration
Blank Leaves
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Façade (main)
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Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
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Location of Reader's Desk
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Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Coin
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Denomination
Signature
Colophon
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Trade Mark
Binding
Decoration Program
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources

Levin, Vladimir and Anna Berezin, Jewish Material Culture along the Volga
Preliminary. Expedition Report (The Center for Jewish Art, 2021), https://cja.huji.ac.il/home/pics/projects/CJA_Report_on_the_Volga_expedition_2021.pdf (accessed June 6, 2023)
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Documenter
Vladimir Levin, Ekaterina Oleshkevich, Ekaterina Sosensky, Anna Berezin | 2021
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Architectural Drawings
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Computer Reconstruction
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Language Editor
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Donor
Dr. Betsy Gidwitz | 2021
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