הומענע — בית החיים החרדי

Humenné — the Orthodox Jewish cemetery

Humenné · הומענע

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Orthodox Jewish cemetery, Židovská hora, outside Humenné, Prešov Region, Slovakia

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1.IT IS ON A HILL OUTSIDE THE TOWN CALLED ŽIDOVSKÁ HORA — the Jewish hill — and you turn off the public road straight into it. Part of the ground is behind wire fencing and the gate is locked.
2.ONE MAN HOLDS THE KEY and keeps the ground. Older records give him as Mr Lebitzky, on +421 917 796 185, but that number was published in 2012 and may well have moved on. Ask in the town if it does not answer, and arrange the visit before travelling either way.
3.THE GRAVES ARE NUMBERED. In 2006 the Heritage Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries restored and numbered seven hundred of them, photographed and transcribed two hundred and ninety-two, and published a booklet of the names and what the stones say. That booklet is how you find a particular kever here.
4.About nine hundred matzevos in all, in marble, granite and limestone, inscribed in Hebrew, Slovak and German.
5.THE OLD PART IS TO YOUR LEFT AS YOU COME IN and is barely walkable — it was left to itself for many years and has not been cleared the way the rest has.
6.The survey dates the ground to the fifteenth century. That would make it one of the oldest in the region and it is worth confirming on the spot rather than repeating; the stones that have been read are very much later.

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Košice (KSC)Košice International· 58 km · 36 mi straight-line· regional
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Poprad (TAT)Poprad-Tatry· 123 km · 77 mi straight-line· regional
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Rzeszów (RZE)Rzeszów-Jasionka· 131 km · 81 mi straight-line· regional
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