Any cemetery, being a place of individual, family and communal memory, at the same time serves as a priceless source of historical and ethnological information of all kinds: history and genealogy, linguistics and art history, epigraphy and onomastics. The Jewish cemetery, moreover, has its own specifics. For the Jewish community, cemetery is an absolutely necessary institution: the community can exist without a synagogue, but not without a place where to bury their dead. Today, Moldova has dozens of Jewish cemeteries, some of them tracing back to the XVIII and even presumably XVII centuries, and most of them are abandoned. However, even abandoned and sometimes ruined, they represent a wide range of topics for research. Stone-cutting art differs much from cemetery to cemetery both from the technical point of view and the symbolic one. One of the oldest cemeteries in Moldova, Vălcineţ, represents the richest Jewish art ever – and who on Earth knows about it besides half a dozen of narrow specialists? The gravestones in Ceadir-Lunga Jewish cemetery reproduce the shapes of the Northern monolithic ones, being constructed of red bricks and cemented. The metal fence around one of the family graveyards in Chisinau cemetery, according to our hypothesis, refers to the traditional matzevah formula “tantzebah”. Many discoveries are still waiting for their explorers – if we have enough time before the cemeteries themselves are levelled to the ground. The report is based on the author’s own field researches and is accompanied by images.