Obj. ID: 14957
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish Cemetery in Kosiv, Ukraine
The cemetery in Kuty was documented by the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1994 and again by the project Jewish Galicia and Bukovina in 2012.
See also the website of the Jewish Galicia and Bukovina (http://jgaliciabukovina.net/160392/cemetery/kosov-cemetery).
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. According to VAAD, the oldest preserved gravestone relates to 1712. The oldest gravestone found by ESJF expedition relates to the mid-18th century, so it can be assumed that the cemetery emerged during that period. First, it appears on Austrian maps of the 1860s and 1880s, later was marked on Polish maps of 1939.
The cemetery is fenced from the street side by a metal fence of two metres height on a stone foundation. There are about 300 tombstones.
Date of the oldest tombstone: 1744
Date of the latest tombstone: 1918