Leaders of a £1 million project to restore Glasgow Jewish cemeteries are casting their net far and wide in order to generate funding.
Project co-chairs David Links and Professor Alan Shenkin say that, with the Glasgow Jewish community estimated at below 4,000, they need to attract support from the Glasgow diaspora scattered around the globe.
Professor Shenkin pointed out that those with relatives buried in the Riddrie and Glenduffhill cemeteries were living in other UK centres, as well as Israel, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
"We have emailed over 1,500 synagogues worldwide in the hope of reaching some of them.
"If I had family buried abroad, I'd like to think that their graves were well tended - and to be able to help with that if I could."
The recently launched campaign has already raised nearly £40,000 towards the "transformational works to reset tombstones and restore and replace kerbs, lairs and paths".
Riddrie was used for burials from 1905 until around 1970. Glenduffhill has been operational since 1933. The glasgowhebrewburialsociety.org website has details of all 11,000 tombstones in its cemeteries, allowing people to search for burial information on family members and view images of the stones.