Židovský hřbitov ve Slezské Ostravě

Kateřina LAPISZOVÁ

Bachelor's thesis

Jewish cemetery in Slezská Ostrava In my thesis I will focus on the New Jewish Cemetery in Silesian Ostrava, which is the only Jewish monument in town still in existence at present. There are 170 gravestones in the cemetery, most of which come from the period after 1965, the year in which the cemetery was founded. Also, there are to be found 50 gravestones which were placed here after the cemetery in Moravian Ostrava was destroyed between 1984 and 1988. The aim of the thesis is to describe the history of the cemetery and to create a catalogue of the preserved gravestones, with the aid of the historical materials found mostly in the Archive of the Jewish Museum in Prague, which keeps the registers of Jewish religious communities of the Bohemian lands.

Abstract:

Tato práce se věnuje Novému židovskému hřbitovu ve Slezské Ostravě, který je v současnosti jedinou hmotnou dochovanou židovskou památkou města. Na hřbitově se nachází 134 náhrobků, z nichž většina pochází z období po roce 1965, kdy byl hřbitov založen. Vyskytuje se zde i 44 náhrobních kamenů, které byly převezeny ze Starého židovského hřbitova v Moravské Ostravě zničeného mezi lety 1984 - 1988. Cílem práce je popsání historie hřbitova a sestavení katalogu zachovaných náhrobků.

Abstract:

In my theis i will focus on the New Jewish Cemetery in Silesian Ostrava, which is the only Jewish monument in town still in existence at present. There are 134 gravestones in the cemetery, most of which come from the period after 1965, the year in which the cemetery was founded. Also, there are to be found 44 gravestones which were placed here after the cemetery in Moravian Ostrava was destroyed between 1984 and 1988. The aim of the thesis is to describe the history of the cemetery and to create a catalogue of the preserved gravestone.

Keywords

Nový židovský hřbitov v Ostravě, Starý židovský hřbitov v Ostravě, Ostrava, židovský hřbitov, židovské náhrobky, židovská komunita

Language used: Czech

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 30. 4. 2019

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: Mgr. Daniel Soukup, Ph.D.

Palacký University Olomouc

Faculty of Arts

Bachelor programme / field:
Human Studies / Jewish and Israeli Studies - History