Obj. ID: 33438
Jewish Funerary Art  Jewish cemetery in Arpașu de Sus, Romania

Arpașu de Sus is a small village between the Carpathian Mountains and the River Olt. 12 Jews lived there in 1900 and 19 – in 1910.[1]

The Jewish cemetery of Arpașu de Sus occupies a small plot in the middle of the junction of two streets. It is surrounded by a wooden fence without a gate. Five tombstones are currently standing in the cemetery, all but one illegible.

The only legible headstone marks the grave of Golda Libe Schwarz, whose Hungarian name was Giza. She died at the age of 21. The tombstone has a traditional Hebrew epitaph and a short German one; its upper part is decorated with a depiction of a willow – a very common image on Jewish and non-Jewish graves in Transylvania.