Obj. ID: 40861
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish Cemetery in Lipcani, Moldova
The report "Jewish Historic Monuments and Sites in Moldova," published by The United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad in 2010, states:
"The substantial Jewish cemetery is still in use, but it is poorly maintained, with only occasional clearing or cleaning. The masonry wall that surrounds it is broken in many places. The cemetery’s size is about 10,000 square meters and there are more than 100 gravestones still visible, but more than a quarter of these are toppled over or broken. The oldest gravestones are datable to the 18th century. They are large rectangular slabs, mostly flat, with neatly carved Hebrew inscriptions filling much of the space, but often decorated with low relief carving of Jewish symbols or various vegetal and geometric decorative patterns filling the upper quarter of the stone."
Jewish Heritage Sites and Monuments in Moldova, p. 54
For the description prepared in the Survey of Jewish History and Holocaust-related Sites in Moldova, see here.
