Published : 2012-12-31

The legendary and mysterious matzevahs in Szczebrzeszyn

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The author deals with the matzevahs, mostly of famous people in the Jewish cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn. Legends and stories of individual graves, passed through genera-tions in the Jewish community in Szczebrzeszyn before World War II, compares the information given on post-war commemorative plaques set in the cemetery, and also circulated in contemporary publications, including the Internet. Then confronts all this information with historical facts.

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Jews, Szczebrzeszyn, cemetery, Torah, matzevah



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Trzciński, A. (2012). The legendary and mysterious matzevahs in Szczebrzeszyn. Jewish Studies. Almanac, 2(2), 9–18. https://doi.org/10.56583/sz.780

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