The book provides background biographical information about the lives of the people who are buried in the cemetery to give a true sense of the lives of Jews in pre WWI London …

• Details of occupations such as tailors, seamstresses, boot makers, hawkers, feather curlers, fruit salesmen, grocers and fishmongers, cigarette and cigar makers and the occasional diamond broker.
• Plashet Cemetery is not known for its famous burials – the majority of the burials are of ordinary citizens.
• The book provides an insight into families, schooling, childhood and children. Where families came from, the languages they spoke and the inter-marriage between different family groups.
• Each entry contains information gleaned from the Jewish press of the day (The Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish World) as well as other contemporary resources.

Immerse yourself in the past with this unusual genealogy resource book and explore the lives of immigrant Jews at the turn of last century (and maybe find your ancestors)…