The second Jewish cemetery (known as the New Jewish cemetery ) is the now lost cemetery, which was located on the left side of the Lyussdorf road, which led to the Odessa suburb of Lustdorf [1] . The necropolis was opened in 1873 [1] [2] .
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| Second Jewish cemetery | |
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| A country |  Ukraine |
| City | Odessa |
| Denomination | interfaith |
| First mention | 1873 year |
The necropolis was surrounded by a wall in which, according to the project of architect A. B. Minkus , two pairs of gates were made, and the wall itself was similar to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem [2] . In the cemetery, according to the project of the architect F. A. Troupyansky , a ritual hall (synagogue) with a dome was built [2] .
Isaac Babel described this churchyard in The End of the Almshouse:
An old tailor apprentice showed his boss the centennial history of Odessa, resting under granite slabs. He showed him the monuments and crypts of wheat exporters, ship brokers and merchants who built the Russian Marseille on the site of the village of Hadzhibey. They lay here - facing the gates - Ashkenazi, Hesse and Efrussi - polished merchants, philosophical revelers, creators of wealth and Odessa jokes. They lay under the monuments of Labrador and pink marble, fenced off with chains of chestnuts and acacias from the plebs huddling against the walls ... [2]
Among those buried in the cemetery are: Mendele Moyher-Sforim and Lazar Carmen , poet S. Frug, professor Jacob Bardakh , Adolf Minkus , Manya Itskovich Babel (father of Isaac Babel) [2] . Here, the bodies of about 300 Jews, victims of the pogrom of 1905, were also buried here, and subsequently a grant memorial was erected according to the design of Fyodor Troupyansky [2] .
In the 1950s, the Soviet government closed the cemetery for new burials [2] . And in 1974, by order of the Soviet government, it was destroyed (until complete elimination in 1978 [3] ) [2] . All memorial structures were demolished, structures were also demolished [2] . Burials were not tolerated (except for very rare and special cases). On the site of the buried, including the victims of the pogroms, organized a recreation park " Artillery Park " [2] .
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When the necropolis was demolished, they also destroyed the wall with the gate. However, there was a "misfire." It turned out that the Frenchwoman Zhanna Lyaburb was shot at the left gate and the authorities of Odessa quickly restored the gate, but laid it down. They have now become a monument to a propagandist shot by chance here [4] .
For decades, the Jewish community of Odessa has been trying to obtain permission from the Odessa authorities to build a memorial. In 2011, permission was obtained [5] .
See also
- The first Jewish cemetery (Odessa)
- Third Jewish Cemetery (Odessa)