Open AccessThe Oldest Ashkenazi Gravestone from Ostróg (1520) and Its Destruction
Author(s) -
Michael Nosonovsky,
Alexandra Fishel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
tiroš
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2658-3380
DOI - 10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.3.1
Subject(s) - judaism , history , ethnography , archaeology , art , ancient history
The article reviews the history of the Jewish cemetery in Os-tróg, Ukraine, – one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe: from the earliest dated gravestones of 1445 and 1520, to the visit of Jew-ish ethnographers S. An-sky and S. Yudovin in 1912, to its destruction in 1968, and to the recent efforts of the local activist H. Arshinov to identify and restore several hundreds of the gravestones.