The Bodrum Jewish Cemetery — C M Kösemen

Tombstones have many memories to share about the past For these reasons they must be made to speak and their sayings must be carefully recorded Known today mainly as a holiday destination the Aegean town of Bodrum also hosted a small but important Jewish community in its past This book catalogues the only remaining physical traces of this community in a small neglected cemetery Written by Siren Bora and translated and photographed by C M Kösemen this study includes detailed images of all surviving tombstones in the Bodrum Jewish Cemetery translations of every legible epitaph and provides useful background information on the history of Bodrum s Jews Jewish funerary traditions the details of epitaph texts and more