Tyne and Wear HER(10851): Preston Cemetery, Jewish sections - Details
10851
N Tyneside
Preston Cemetery, Jewish sections
Preston
NZ36NW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Inhumation Cemetery
Jewish Cemetery
Early Modern
C19
Structure
Preston Cemetery opened in 1856 as Tynemouth Cemetery. The earliest Jewish gravestone is in the north-west section in the first row closest to the wall. The Hebrew text says 'Sarah Isaacs, aged 26, buried 6 July 1856'. The associated synagogue was at 20 Linskill Street, North Shields from 1870. There is a separate modern (1977) Reform cemetery at the other end of Preston Cemetery with an ohel (prayer hall at burial ground, especially a small walk-in memorial to a deceased Hasidic rabbi).
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Sharman Kadish, 2006, Jewish Heritage in England - Architectural Guide, page 190; Jewish Chronicle, 23 September 1988, p 11