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Contributor:
Paul Christian Kirchner
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1724
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This enameled glass beaker, belonging to the Polin Burial Society in Bohemia, is a fine example of the melding of Jewish and Bohemian art forms. It features painted figures carrying a body toward a…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Poleň (Polin), Holy Roman Empire
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1691
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Late 9th Century BCE
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A song I engraved on the tombstone (matzevet) of my master, my father, may he be remembered for the life of the world to come. The holy seed shall be its stock (matzavtah; Isaiah 6:13), is it not the…
Contributor:
Bernard Picart, Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
Beginning of the 18th Century
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Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724) was the chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, a court Jew, and Hapsburg financier. His grave in the Viennese Seegasse cemetery is marked with an elaborately decorated…
Places:
Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1724
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Unknown
Date:
16th Century
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Born in Córdoba, Spain, Esther Gabay Henriques married Daniel de la Penha, a Spanish merchant in Rotterdam. The family coat of arms appears above the epitaph. Beneath is a low relief of the couple’s…
Places:
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands)
Date:
1697
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Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen (ca. 1670–1749) was a rabbi in Altona. His gravestone bears a relief of open books and is inscribed with the titles of his works, each playing on a scriptural phrase involving…
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Altona, Habsburg Empire
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1749
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Moses Mordechai Margaliot (d. 1617) was a member of a family descended from the illustrious medieval scholar Rashi. Margaliot served as a rabbi in Kraków. He was buried in the cemetery of the Rema…
Places:
Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1617