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Obj. ID: 16757
Jewish Funerary Art
  Jewish cemetery in Leżajsk, Poland

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Khaimovich, Boris, 1995

According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, there are 100 gravestones. There are 60 intact tombstones, standing in rows. Some tombstones (mostly fragments) are stocked in piles. Some tombstones were returned to the cemetery from the pavement of the market square, and some were found during the construction works of the town's roundabout in 2001.

Date of oldest tombstone: 1866
Date of newest tombstone: 1936
Perimeter length: 591 metres

There is an iron fence 1.5 m high, with an iron and brick gate.

There is a brick ohel dedicated to Tzaddik Elimelech of Leżajsk. It was built in the 1960s and renewed in 1988 by the Nisselbaum foundation.

The cemetery starts at the crossroad of Studzienna and Górna streets and covers the eastern side of Górna Street.

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