[1][2] The date of the foundation of the cemetery can not be precisely determined, but appeared in the first or second half of the nineteenth century, when this territory was bought out by the Jewish community.

on land specially purchased by the Jewish community, after the formation of the Peter and Paul Cemetery.

The bulk of the tombstones of the first existence of the necropolis was destroyed, the earliest that have survived to the present, belong to the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

In the postwar period, the Soviet government began a new round of anti-Semitism, in particular, in 1959 the last functioning synagogue in the city was closed and the Chernihiv Jewish community was deregistered with the wording "for systematic gross violation of the law on religious cults" (in Russian); In 1961, propaganda was carried out in the local press, and in 1968 the cemetery, which still had plenty of free space for burial, was forcibly closed.

Currently, the cemetery is maintained by members of the Chernihiv Jewish community BEF Hasde-Esther and the city's utilities.