Jewish cemeteries in Izmir are part of the city’s religious and family memory. They connect communal care, genealogy, rabbinic history and the long movement of Jewish life across the city.
- Active: Altındağ Jewish Cemetery
- Historic: Gürçeşme and Bornova (no longer active)
- At Gürçeşme: the tomb of Rabbi Hayim Palachi
The cemeteries
The community’s cemeteries include the Altındağ Jewish Cemetery, which is active and maintained by the Izmir Jewish Cemetery Charity Association, and the older Gürçeşme and Bornova cemeteries, which are no longer active.
The Gürçeşme cemetery holds the tomb of Rabbi Hayim Palachi. Together with the Bet Hillel Synagogue and the nearby mikveh, his students remember these as connected places of memory.
Visiting and enquiries
Access and practical arrangements are handled through the appropriate contact route. For privacy and community reasons, detailed procedures are not published openly. For family, genealogy or research enquiries, please contact the community with a clear description of the information you are seeking.