The content of the article focuses on the twofold relationship of nature and the
products of culture – that is Jewish cemeteries. The main body of this work constitutes the
results of the inventory research carried out by the author within 49 cemeteries in Silesian
voivodeship from July to September of 2015. Joining field observations with cameral
analyses, including literature analyses, allowed for the visualization of the correspondence
which exists between religious rigidities (more broadly, cultural rigidities) and the location
of Jewish cemeteries in the geographic space, which was included in the first part of the work.
Its second, equivalent link comprises the distinguishment and discussion of the factors and the
natural processes that determine the transformation taking place within the Jewish cemeteries
that, together with the deliberate devastation, lead to their disappearance in the landscape. The
last part concerns the problems of the protection of sacred buildings and is also
an introduction to the discussion, which, in the opinion of the author, should be taken in order
to preserve the cultural heritage, which, over the last few decades, has been subject
to dynamic changes of predominantly destructive nature
