MINNY SOLOMON REUBEN
 
   
MINNY SOLOMON REUBEN
 

Country of Origin:
HONG KONG

Date:
1866.7.11-
1922.11.27

Surface Treatment :
English inscription

Stone :
White Marble


 

Stone Found at:
Buddhist cemetery

Date the Stone Was Found:
2002.8.3

Size:
65x95x25cm

State of Conservation :
Intact


 
     
Additional Info
Solomon Minny was born in HongKong in the early years of the city. Leaves and flowers decorating the sides and the top. The stone is now located in the Buddhist cemetery in the west of Shanghai. This place use to be 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 destoried. The headstones located in this place at the moment were placed there by the local authorities by request of the Israeli consulate of Shanghai after we showed them many lost Jewish headstones that can be found in the villages west of the city. Solomon Minny died in Shanghai at the age of 56.
 
 
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