Burials

Data on persons buried in the local Jewish cemetery are of particular interest for various genealogical, local history and historical researches, as well as in the development and organizing of excursion programs to the Jewish places of Hlukhiv and the Jewish cemetery itself. At the Hlukhiv Jewish cemetery there is the grave of the Jewish writer, publicist and teacher Lazar Davidovich Zweifel, the monument to Abram Isaakovych Rusakov - the grandfather of the outstanding Soviet painter and graphic artist Oleksandr Isaakovich Rusakov, the gravestones of the grandfather and grandmother of the actor Anatoly Ravykovich, and a number of burials of individuals who made a significant contribution to the history of Hlukhiv and the town's Jewish community.

Teachers, artisans, traders, merchants, bankers and religious figures are buried in the Jewish cemetery - people who contributed to the economic and cultural development of the town. Among the newly discovered gravestones, we can note the monuments of the merchants Isaac Yakovych Eisenstadt, who traded in wine, groceries, and kerosene in the city, Zalman and Getzel Yesmansky, who traded in wood and grain, Aron Borokhovych Luchynskyi, who was engaged in the sale of gold and silver products, Hirsha Velkovich Samuylovich, traded in wood, Mendel Borisovich Samuylovych, who had a large manufacturing trade, Samuil Yankelevich Samuylovich, Mendel Samuilovych Lokshin, Mendel Abramovich Mesezhnikov, Khaya Samuilovna Krasovytska and Khasia Shklovska. Here are also the graves of the merchants Hirsha Zalmanov Kaplunov, who traded grain and wine on Voznesenska Street for many years, Hirsha Zalmanovich Tiraspolskyi, who, together with his brother Antsel, was engaged in the sale of caps, hats and caps, Hirsha Zalmanovich Fishkin, who traded in tailored dresses in Hlukhiv, Bentsion Velkovich Shklovsky and Abram Moiseyovych Rutskin, who traded calico in the city, Eli Nepomnyaschyi, who had a shop with a small shop, Malka Krasovytska, who traded in manufactured goods, Aron Khaimovich Volkov and Meyer Falyev Volovyk. Among the craftsmen of the city, one can note the tombstones on the graves of Abram and Mordukh Pindrik, who kept a metalwork workshop in Hlukhiv.

Along with the gravestones of people who contributed to the economic and cultural development of the town, the mass grave located in the Hlukhiv Jewish cemetery and the individual burials of the victims of two Jewish pogroms: on February 22-23, 1918 and during several weeks of November 1919, are of historical significance. In the course of these pogroms, about 120 Jewish residents of the town died. Among them were public figures, rabbis, merchants, industrialists, craftsmen, employees, teachers, high school students, and University students.

Of special interest in the Jewish cemetery are the graves of the Hasidic rebbes and the righteous. They are perceived as holy places, crypts-oichels are placed on them, pilgrims go to them specially, they pray next to them and leave notes- flowers kvitlach with wishes. Such burials have, in addition to historical and cultural, also religious significance, being a place of pilgrimage for modern Hasids. Among the graves of the Hlukhiv Jewish cemetery, the graves of the spiritual leaders of the community of rabbis Shumyatsky have a similar significance.