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In 2015, the Scottish government published statistics on abusive behaviour in Religiously Aggravated Offending in Scotland in 2014–15, covering the Protective Edge period, which noted an increase in the number of charges filed for anti-Jewish acts from 9 in 2014 (2% of those charged with religious offences) to 25 in 2015 (4% of total). Most ...
Jewish cemetery, Glasgow Necropolis. As Jewish people were not allowed to be interred within Christian burial grounds, a small area outwith the boundary of the main cathedral graveyard was allocated to them. The ground contains 57 burials. [7] Jewish burials took place here from 1832 to 1855, after which they were in the Eastern Necropolis. [8]
The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre (SJAC) is the largest repository of items relating to Jewish migration to Scotland and life in Scotland. [1] It aims to document and illustrate the religious, organisational, social, economic, political, cultural and family life of Jews in Scotland from the 18th century to the present-day in order to heighten awareness - and to stimulate study of - the ...
The cemetery was established in 1871 by the Craigton Cemetery Company to serve south-west Glasgow, Govan and Partick. The original cemetery extended to 30 acres on lands of Wester Craigton and Merrylands, previously owned by Robert Urquhart. The main shareholder was Thomas Reid (1831–1900) of the Govan Dye Works.
Jewish Cemetery, Sciennes House Place; Kirkliston Cemetery; Liberton Cemetery; Morningside Cemetery (previously private) Mortonhall Cemetery and Crematorium; New Calton Burial Ground, Regent Road; Newington Cemetery (includes a large Jewish section) North Leith Burial Ground, Coburg Street; North Merchiston Cemetery, Ardmillan Terrace ...
Newington Cemetery is a cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Technically it lies beyond Newington itself, standing on an awkward elongated kite-shaped site between a railway line and Dalkeith Road, between Prestonfield and Peffermill.
New Jewish Cemetery, Prague – built next to the Olšany Cemetery to alleviate the space problems faced by the Old Jewish Cemetery, it is the burial place of Franz Kafka; Vyšehrad cemetery, Prague – the Czech Republic's most important cemetery, it is the burial site for Antonín Dvořák, Alphonse Mucha and Bedřich Smetana, amongst others.
Jewish cemeteries in the United Kingdom (2 C, 15 P) Jewish cemeteries in the United States (2 C, 3 P) This page was last edited on 12 October 2022, at 11:36 (UTC ...