The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Jewish funeral culture
Abel, E., Kruger, M. & Abel, J. 2008
‘Beth el: Michigan’s oldest Jewish cemetery’, Markers, 25, 67-93.
Bar-Levav, A. 2002
‘We are where we are not’: the cemetery in Jewish culture’, Jewish Studies, 41:15-46.
Ferziger, A. 2016
‘Foreign ashes in sovereign space: cremation and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, 1931-99’, Jewish Studies Quarterly, 23:4, 290-313.
Garbova, S. 2020
‘To protect and preserve: echoes of traditional Jewish burial culture in the exhumation of Holocaust mass graves in postwar Belarus and Ukraine’, AJS Review, 44:1, 75-98.
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Goldberg, H. 1993
‘Gravesites and memorials of Libyan Jews: alternate versions of sacralization of space in Judaism’, in E. Ben‐Ari and Y. Bilu (eds) Grasping Space: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli Discourse and Experience, Albany: State University of New York, 47- 60.
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Goldberg, S-A. 1996
Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth-through Nineteenth-Century Prague, Berkley, CA: University of California Press.
Høeg, I. 2023
‘Jewishness and space: negotiating Jewish identity and the Jewish cemetery in the local context of Trondheim, Norway’, in A. Maddrell, S. Kmec, T. Uteng, & M. Westendorp, (eds) Mobilities in Life and Death: Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries, Springer, 123-143.
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Moise, F. & Marx, C. 2019
‘Le respect à la person décédée (Kavod Ha Met): us et coutumes funéraire du judaïsme de Luxembourg’ in S. Kmec, R. Philippart & A. Reuter (eds) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarrregionen, Luxembourg : CapybaraBooks, 259-266.
Nicolotti, A. 2019
‘An ignominious burial: the treatment of the body of Jesus of Nazareth’, in Cavicchioli, S. & Provero, L. (eds) (2019) Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History, New York: Routledge, 11-28.
Wiesemann, F. 1992
‘Jewish burials in Germany – between tradition, the Enlightenmen and the authorities’, The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 37:1, 17-31.
