Surface
Treatment :
Hebrew and English inscription
Stone
:
White Marble
Stone
Found at:
Buddhist cemetery
Date the Stone Was Found:
2002.8.3
Size:
75x53cm
State
of Conservation :
Additional
Info
Weiss Moritz son of Shmuel. The stone is now located in the
Buddhist cemetery in the west of Shanghai. This place use
to be the International cemetery until the cultural revolution
of China. In 1958, all the four Jewish cemeteries in Shanghai
moved to this international cemetery in the west of the city.
During the Cultural Revolution all the western graves in this
place where destroyed. The headstones located there were placedby
the local authorities at the request of the Israeli consulate
of Shanghai. Weiss Morits died in Shanghai at the age of 63.
