Obj. ID: 10214
Funerary Art Old Jewish Cemetery in Medzhybizh, Ukraine
The cemetery exised from the 16th century (earliest preserved tombstone - 1555). In the mid-19th century the burials ceased and the New Cemetery was established.
During WWII a German artillery unit was situated in the cemetery. After the war, the majority of tombstones were used by the locals for building purposes, so that the expeditions of St. Petersburg Jewish University in 1988-1989 found only 198 tombstones (148 standing in their place and 50 fallen; 60 and 18 of them are well preserved).
The most important grave in the cemetery is the grave of the Besht, the founder of Hasidism. The old wooden ohel disappeared during WWII and a new tombstone on the grave was put in 1965 by Lipnitskii from Kiev. The tombstones of Besht's pupils were restored by Michael Grinberg in 1988, and a new brick ohel with a marble tombstone of the Besht were built in the 1990s.
sub-set tree: 
| At the corner of Baal Shem Tova street, Nesterovskoho street, and Kolhospna street
Lukin, Beniamin and Boris Khaimovich, 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy: istoricheskii putevoditel’, vol. 1 (Jerusalem - St. Petersburg: Ezro, 1997), p. 167-172.