Jewish Cemetery (Worms, Rhineland)

This tombstone, discovered in Venosa, in southern Italy, gives its date as 754 from the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, which corresponds to the year 822/3 CE. The sandstone marker was placed…

This marble headstone, belonging to a Jew named Judah bar Akon, is the only Jewish headstone preserved from medieval Córdoba, Spain. The text, dating to very early in the Jewish history of this city…

This tombstone of Samuel ben Asher ha-Levi, in the Jewish cemetery in Worms, Germany, dates to the late eleventh century. Now broken and weathered, it stood in place for more than eight hundred years…

The gravestone of Jacob ha-baḥur (“the unmarried” or “young man”), once considered the oldest tombstone in the Jewish cemetery of Worms, Germany, dates to 1076/7. The text asks that Jacob rest with…

Discovered in León, in Castile, Spain, the stele of Solomon bar David ben Parjad is dated to July 1097. The marble stele measures about 15 inches (38.1 cm) by 1 inch (2.5 cm) and remains well…

This marble tombstone, from Palermo in Sicily, commemorates a Norman Sicilian woman named Anna and dates to 1149. The stone contains five panels. In the middle is a colorful Greek cross, and the other…