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Obj. ID: 8049
Jewish Funerary Art
  Jewish cemetery in Kanjiža, Serbia

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Čerešnješ, Ivan, 2002
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Jewish cemetery in Kanjiža | Unknown
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Serbia | Vojvodina | Kanjiža (Кањижа)
| Vuka Karadžića Street
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Ornamentation
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History/Provenance

Jews began settling in Kanjiža in the second half of the 18th century. The cemetery was founded in 1802. The synagogue was built in 1861, on the corner of 1 Bolmanska Street and Dože Đerđa Streets. The Jewish school was built in 1867 and was located across the street from the synagogue. The same year, the Jewish kindergarten was established. It was located on the corner of Bolmanska and Drapšinova Streets. At the beginning of the 20th century, 375 Jews lived in this town.

The number of Holocaust survivors is 63. The synagogue was demolished in 1948. The building of the kindergarten exists today.

The cemetery has around 230 gravestones. The most common shapes of the gravestones are stele and obelisk. The stelae are older types of tombs. The form of the obelisk became dominant in the 1870s. This change indicates signs of suppression of orthodoxy. A similar tendency is seen in the languages of the inscriptions: the ones in Hebrew are from earlier periods, while the appearance of bilingual Hungarian-Hebrew inscriptions coincides with the appearance of the obelisk-shaped gravestones. The cemetery is inactive.

In 1983, the ownership over it was transferred to the municipality of Kanjiža.

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