Jewish Funeral in Ouderkerk

This etching depicts a body being brought for burial in the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish cemetery at Ouderkerk, the oldest Jewish cemetery (est. 1614) in the Netherlands, located on the Amstel River.

Credits

Romeyn de Hooghe, after Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, Trekschuit bij Portugees-Joodse begraafplaats Beth Haim te Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, 1675–c. 1695. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.

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