To what extent was cremation practised among the Bradford Reform Jewish community? What role did social class and migrant status play in shaping Jewish cremation rates? How did the practice of cremation among the Bradford Reform Jewry and Berlin’s Jewish communities shape the topography of their cemeteries? Previous studies of the rise of cremation among Jewish and non-Jewish Germans have overlooked the German Jewry in the diaspora. Therefore, this paper provides new insight into the ongoing dialogue between migrants and their country of origin by conducting a transnational study of cremation. I examine how the Enlightenment and the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) movements influenced German and German Jewish attitudes towards cremation, and became a significant factor in shaping the cremation rates of Bradford’s first-generation German Jewish immigrants. I will also address social class as an influential factor in rising cremation rates by analysing burial registers and the probates of the cremated, among other archival material. The Bradford Reform Jewish community is one of Britain’s oldest and smallest Reform Jewish communities, and many of those interred in the community’s cemetery originated from Germany. I will also analyse burial registers and cemetery plans to explore how far the rise in cremations impacted the topography of Weißensee and Bradford Reform, specifically whether ashes were interred in a separate section from earth burials. In doing so, I will explore the Berlin and Bradford Reform Jewry’s attitudes towards cremation and the status of the corpse, and how this compared to other Jewish communities.