jewish cemetery, montagu rd., tottenham park, london

like a ghetto for the dead, the 1885 cemetery is hidden behind high walls with rolls of razor wire and many security cameras along the top, an ironic and dismal sight given jewish c20 history. such precautions are presumably to deter anti-semitic vandals, yet are not yet deemed necessary around tottenham park cemetery next door which is full of islamic graves, surely equally at risk from such xenophobes. openness and integration have not always saved minorities from attack, but the alternative is repellent and no way forward.