A Jewish cemetery in George Town, Malaysia
The island of Penang, at the northern end of the Strait of Malacca, was once part of the British Straits Settlements (one of the other parts was Singapore, at the Strait's southern end.) Located on a busy trade route, the island acquired a very diverse population; today it is home to thriving ethnic Chinese, Indian, and Malay communities, and to a variety of different religions.
In times gone by there was also a significant Jewish community here, large enough by 1805 to warrant the establishment of a Jewish cemetery, located on what used to be called Jahudi (Jewish) Rd (now Jalan Zainal Abidin, shown in the opening scene of the video.) The oldest gravestone in the cemetery is dated 1835; the most recent (and quite possibly the last) burial here was in 2011.
After writing about this place on my blog in 2010, I was contacted by a former member of Penang's Jewish community asking for suggestions on how he might find out whether his sister is buried here. It occurred to me that others might have a similar interest in this place, and so on a later visit in March 2013 I photographed all the graves (photographs at picasaweb.google.com/donaldNR/ ,) and made this short video to given an idea of what the cemetery looks and sounds like. The cemetery is tended by a caretaker and his family, who also raise geese and turkeys on the property. The caretaker told me he has lived there since the Japanese times, (the early to mid1940s.) I have high resolution photographs of all of the graves, and I am happy to share them with anyone who is interested.
Colonial cemeteries, Penang, George Town, Malaysia
Jewish Cemetery, Penang, Malaysia © ASIAWARGRAVES.COM
Jewish cemetery in Penang, Malaysia with WW2 grave.
Jewish Cemetery In Malaysia
History
In 1895, the first Jew, Ezekiel Menassah emigrated from Baghdad and settled in Penang, Malaysia. For more than 30 years, Menassah remained the only Jew in to the country, continuing to observe Jewish holidays and keep kashrut. Following World War I, more Jews began to settle in Malaysia. Then during World War II, the Jewish community was evacuated to Singapore. By 1963, only 20 Jewish families remained in Malaysia.
Today, approximately 100 Jews reside in Malaysia. On the island of Penang there is a tiny congregation and a cemetery in George Town in Jewish Street (Jalan Yahudi). The Jewish cemetery in Penang is considered to be the oldest single cemetery in the country. The oldest legible gravestone in the cemetery dates to 1805 and the latest to 1976. The cemetery also includes the grave of a Jewish British officer killed during World War II. Most of the Jews living in Malaysia are refugees from Russia.
Contacts
Congregation
28 Nagore Road
Penang
The Jewish Cemetery, Penang Neighborhood: Georgetown
Tel: +60 4 261 6663
(Penang Tourist Centre)
Address: Jalan Zainal Abidin
Penang MY, 10400
Mr. Gary Braut
Precision Bearing
17502 Jalam 4 Taman Selayang Baru
Industrial Area Kuala Lumpur 68100 Malaysia
Tel: 603-6138-6200
Fax: 603-6138-6206
email: pirkei@pc.jaring.my
Video 2 Minit: Perkuburan Yahudi (Jewish Cemetery) di Malaysia.
Penang Jewish Cemetery terletak di George Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
Penang Jewish Cemetery is located in George Town, Penang, Malaysia.
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Penang Jewish Cemetery
Malaysia
Old George Town cemetery hidden in plain sight
Located within the George Town World Heritage Site, the old Protestant Cemetery was created soon after the British East India Company (EIC) established a settlement in Penang in 1786 by Francis Light.
The earliest recorded burial is of H.D.D Cunningham in 1789 while one Cornelia Van Someran was the last to be buried in 1892.
Approximately 2,500 people are buried in the cemetery, including Light. Many of the early governors of Penang, many of whom succumbed to tropical diseases such as malaria are also buried at the cemetery.
Unfortunately, only 340 or so graves are still identifiable.
The cemetery is considered one of the best preserved examples of an 18th and 19th century Christian cemetery in Southeast Asia according to George Town World Heritage Incorporated (GTWHI), the body dedicated to protecting, promoting and preserving George Town as a sustainable city.
At the time the Protestant Cemetery was founded, it lay at the edge of town surrounded by vegetable plots and paddy fields. Over time, these farm lands gave way to villages houses in the early 19th century which in turn were replaced by brick houses during the turn of the century.
Today, it is right within George Town. Visitors can take a leisurely stroll through the cemetery which offers a glimpse into the tough life of Penang’s earliest residents – many who are buried there did not even live up to 40.
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Protestant Cemetery, Penang | George Town, Malaysia | the Deaf | By Ernest
Film by Ernest using the Canon DSLR, filmed in 1080p25, exported out to 1080p compressed for YouTube.
Edited by Ernest using Adobe Premiere CC.
The Old Protestant Cemetery, also known as Northam Road Cemetery, is a disused Christian cemetery in George Town, Penang, Malaysia.
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Jewish Cemetary of Penang, Malaysia May 2018
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Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera
zahigo25@walla.com +972-54-6905522 tel סיור עם מורה הדרך ומדריך הטיולים צחי שקד 0546905522
My name is Zahi Shaked
In 2000 I became a registered liscenced tourist guide.
My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land.
Following upon many years of travel around the world, which was highlighted by a very exciting emotional and soul-searching meeting with the Dalai Lama, I realized that I had a mission. To pass on the the history of the Holy Land, its religions, and in particular, the birth and development of Christianity.
In order to fulfill this calling in the best way possible, I studied in depth, visited, and personally experienced each and every important site of the ancient Christians. I studied for and received my first bachelors degree in the ancient history of the Holy Land, and am presently completing my studies for my second degree.(Masters)
Parralel to my studies, and in order to earn a living, I was employed for many years in advertising. What I learned there was how to attract the publics attention, generate and, increase interest, and assimilate information. All this I use as tools to describe, explain and deepen the interest in the sites that we visit. From my experience, I have learned that in this way, the Holy Land becomes more than just history, and that the large stones that we see scattered about in dissaray, join together one by one until they become - a Byzantine Church. This also happens when I lead a group of Pilgrims in the Steps of Jesus. We climb to the peak of Mount Precipice, glide over the land to the Sea of Galilee, land on the water and see the miracle which enfolds before us. This is a many faceted experience. Not only history which you will remember and cherish, but an experience which I hope will be inplanted in your hearts and minds, and will accompany you all the days of your life.
Western Road Cemetery, Penang, Malaysia
A short film coverage about the oldest christian cemetery in Penang. The Western Road cemetery has been used for Christian burials since the late 19th century.
The story of the Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives the most important cemetery in Jerusalem
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera zahigo25@walla.com +972-54-6905522 tel סיור עם מורה הדרך ומדריך הטיולים צחי שקד 0546905522
My name is Zahi Shaked
In 2000 I became a registered liscenced tourist guide.
My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land.
Following upon many years of travel around the world, which was highlighted by a very exciting emotional and soul-searching meeting with the Dalai Lama, I realized that I had a mission. To pass on the the history of the Holy Land, its religions, and in particular, the birth and development of Christianity.
In order to fulfill this calling in the best way possible, I studied in depth, visited, and personally experienced each and every important site of the ancient Christians. I studied for and received my first bachelors degree in the ancient history of the Holy Land, and am presently completing my studies for my second degree.(Masters)
Parralel to my studies, and in order to earn a living, I was employed for many years in advertising. What I learned there was how to attract the publics attention, generate and, increase interest, and assimilate information. All this I use as tools to describe, explain and deepen the interest in the sites that we visit. From my experience, I have learned that in this way, the Holy Land becomes more than just history, and that the large stones that we see scattered about in dissaray, join together one by one until they become - a Byzantine Church. This also happens when I lead a group of Pilgrims in the Steps of Jesus. We climb to the peak of Mount Precipice, glide over the land to the Sea of Galilee, land on the water and see the miracle which enfolds before us. This is a many faceted experience. Not only history which you will remember and cherish, but an experience which I hope will be inplanted in your hearts and minds, and will accompany you all the days of your life.
Jerusalem Mount of Olives BW 2010-09-20 07-57-31.JPG
JERUSALEM Mount of Olives Cemetery.JPG
Aerial view of the mountain
The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives, including the Silwan necropolis, is the most ancient and most important cemetery in Jerusalem. Burial on the Mount of Olives started some 3,000 years ago in the First Temple Period, and continues to this day.[1] The cemetery contains anywhere between 70,000 and 2 or 300,000 tombs from various periods, including the tombs of famous figures in Jewish history.
History
In the 19th century special significance was attached to Jewish cemeteries in Jerusalem, since they were the last meeting place not only of Jerusalemites but also of Jews from all over the world. Over the years, many Jews in their old age came to Jerusalem in order to live out the rest of their lives there and to be buried in its holy soil.[2]
During the First and Second Temple Periods the Jews of Jerusalem were buried in burial caves scattered on the slopes of the Mount, and from the 16th century the cemetery began to take its present shape.[1]
The old Jewish cemetery sprawled over the slopes of the Mount of Olives overlooking the Kidron Valley (Valley of Jehoshaphat), radiating out from the lower, ancient part, which preserved Jewish graves from the Second Temple period; here there had been a tradition of burial uninterrupted for thousands of years. The cemetery was quite close to the Old City, its chief merit being that it lay just across the Kidron Valley from the Temple Mount: according to Jewish tradition, it is here that the Resurrection of the Dead would begin[2] once Messiah will appear on the Mount of Olives and head toward the Temple Mount.
Many famous names are buried in the cemetery such as Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar, known as the Ohr ha-Chaim, and Rabbi Yehuda Alcalay who were among the heralds of Zionism; Hasidic rebbes of various dynasties and Rabbis of Yishuv haYashan (the old – pre-Zionist - Jewish settlement) together with Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, and his circle; Henrietta Szold, the founder of the Hadassah organization; the poet Else Lasker-Schüler, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the father of Modern Hebrew, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, the Nobel Laureate for Literature, and Boris Schatz, the founder of the Bezalel School of Art; Israel's sixth Prime Minister Menachem Begin; the victims of the 1929 Arab riots and 1936–39 Arab revolt, the fallen from the 1948 War of Independence, together with Jews of many generations in their diversity
Exploring Bidadari Cemetary, shocking, surprise what I stumbled into !
Open in 1907, the cemetary was closed in 2017 for urban renewal Behind the imposing iron gateway were endless rows of gravestones and marble statues spread over the rolling hills. With approximately 147,000 graves, of Christian, Hindus, Buddhist and Muslim sites.
Bidadari Cemetery was among the oldest and largest cemeteries in Singapore.
Once a resting place for our dearly departed, early pioneers, prominent Singaporeans. British colonialists and commoners, now abandoned, nature takes over, overgrown foliage, tropical birds and serenity.
Meninjau Perkuburan Bidadari, Singapura. Tanah perkuburan seluas 26 hectares ini di buka pada 1907, pernah menampung hingga 147,000 kubur pemakaman dari pelbagai kaum dan agama.
Bidadari Cemetery akhirnya menutup gerbangnya pada 31 Oktober 1972.
ENGLISH CHRISTIAN CEMETARY, GEORGE TOWN, PENANG, MALAYSIA, JAN 13, 2014
HI FOLKS, I FIND HISTORICAL THINGS OF THIS NATURE VERY INTERESTING. I SPENT AN HOUR IN THIS CEMETARY. HAPPY TRAILS, SNAKE MAN SALLEE!!!
Jewish Cemetery in Penang
It's at Jalan Zainal Abidin (Formerly Jahudi Road)