Zemun Cemetery

This guide to Zemun Cemetery in Belgrade follows Shimon Leib Herzl, a merchant of the old Habsburg border town who served as warden and shofar blower in Rabbi Judah Alkalai's synagogue, and the rabbi whose ideas he carried home to his family. It moves from the nineteenth-century Jewish community on Gardoš hill to a summer morning in twenty twenty-six, when a team arrived to open his grave. Best heard among the stones of the Jewish section.