Re: [Cz-L] About cemeteries

Hi,

Thanks for the scholarly explanation of "cemetery". However, regarding your
statement that "No Jew was ever buried in a churchyard", I personally
visited Baruch Spinoza's grave in the churchyard of the Nieuwe Kerk in The
Hague, Netherlands.
Regards,
Fred Schneider

----- Original Message -----
From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 2:42 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] About cemeteries


> Cemetery.
>
>
>
> As almost all recent mails deal with the cemetery it is
>
> essential we know more about the origin of the word.
>
> Cemetery stems from the Greek word Koimeterion
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> meaning " sleeping place ".
>
> Koma is Greek for sleep.
>
> From this comes Rumanian cimitir , Polish cmentarz ,
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> and Ukrainean Zwintar.
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> So the Jewish cemetery in Ukrainean is Jidovsky Zwintar.
>
> But in Galicia and Bukowina they call a Jewish cemetery
>
> the Kirkut. Special name - only in Western Ukraina.
>
> Kirkut comes from the German Kirchhof.
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> Kirchhof means church yard where the Christians of old
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> time used to bury their dead .
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> No Jew was ever buried in a church yard !
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> But Kirkut it is.
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>
>
> From here the famous poem :
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> " To the Kirkut sneak two lonely vandals,
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> One of them is wearing sandals,
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> The night is young , the graves are old,
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> They're looking for the Jewish gold ."
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>
>
> Hardy

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