Metadata: Sunderland Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Society)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Postal address:
- Tyne and Wear Archives, Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA
- Phone number:
- 44(0)191 2772248
- Web address:
- https://twarchives.org.uk/
- Reference number:
- JD.CK4
- Title:
- Sunderland Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Society)
- Title (official language):
- Sunderland Chevra Kadisha (Jewish Burial Society)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sunderland and North East Jewish Community Legacy Project
- Date(s):
- 1870/2010
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 39 items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Cartographic material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes minutes, expenditure accounts, income accounts, AGM agendas, appeal letter, burial register, lists, indexes and plans of burials at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, digital photographs of headstones, indexes of deaths, and grave plans.
- Archival history:
- Held by creating organisation/individual until gifted to Tyne and Wear Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The association that deals with the burial of the dead, this was first organised on a proper basis in 1869. From 1892 the Chevra covered both the "Israelite" synagogue and the Beth Hamedrash. At different times three separate plots at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery were used for burials.
- Access points: locations:
- Sunderland
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Hevrah kadisha
- Access, restrictions:
- Access may be restricted. Please ask a member of staff.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Author of the description:
- Daniel Stoker; North East Museums; 2025
