Gravestone of Abraham Cohen Pimentel
1697
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This gravestone is inscribed in memory of Abraham Cohen Pimentel, who served as rabbi of the Portuguese Synagogue (Esnoga) in Amsterdam. One narrow side contains an opened book; the opposite narrow side figures a pair of raised hands signifying that the deceased was a kohen (priest). As with many other tombstones in this cemetery, Pimental’s stone includes both Hebrew and Portuguese inscriptions. Pimentel’s wife, Rebecca Cohen Pimentel, died in 1702 and is also buried in the Sephardic cemetery of Altona Konigstrasse in Hamburg, the oldest surviving Portuguese Sephardic cemetery in Europe.
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Photo by Kent Coupe. Courtesy of the Jewish Atlantic World Database.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.