Cmentarz a nekropolia - "tradycja" a asymilacja? Cmentarze żydowskie w przestrzeni miast województwa śląskiego
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The article presents analyses of Jewish cemetery space in the Silesian Voivodeship with
the focus on the complexes located within urban centres: Częstochowa, Tarnowskie Góry,
Bytom, Katowice, Gliwice, Bielsko-Biała (former Bielsko), Cieszyn. The study aims at
demonstrating assimilation processes, which occurred in the 19th- and 20th-century Jewish
communities living in the research area and which were ref ected in material culture of these communities. Transformations of particular elements of cemetery landscaping, such as:
special layout, gravestone forms and location, pre-burial house physiognomy, bear witness
to the main cultural trends and are the expression of political and religious differences. The
article is based on the results of author´s own analysis and f eld documentation of Jewish
necropolises of the Silesian Voivodeship, carried out in 2015–2016.
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