eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
The computerized database, containing 61,022 Jewish tombstones from across Turkey, is the largest academic tombstone database of its kind in the world. The fruit of the labor of numerous individuals and bodies, its primary goals are to preserve the remnants of the gradually-disappearing Jewish life in Turkey, aid scholars to paint a broader and richer picture of the past, and enable interested laypersons to search for their roots.
The computerized database includes physical and epigraphical material dating from the earliest cemetery it documents (November 1582)—the Hasköy cemetery in Istanbul—until the end of field work in Turkey in the summer of 1990. It thus covers 400 years of Jewish existence in the region—mostly under Ottoman rule and then, from 1923, the Republic of Turkey.
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[col col=6]The pile of tombstones in the Hasköy
cemetery created by its partial destruction due
to the construction of the ring road
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[col col=6]Side of the sarcophagus-shaped tombstone
of Sol, wife of Abraham Shafami, who died
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