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Passages, Homage to Walter Benjamin
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Passages is a memorial in Portbou, Spain, created by Karavan to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of cultural critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. Benjamin committed suicide in Portbou…

Contributor:

Dani Karavan

Places:

Portbou, Spain

Date:

1994

Subjects:

Art, Memorial, Exile, Holocaust, Cemetery, Gravestones & tombs, Architecture

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Architecture
Photograph of metal sculpture in the shape of a V through which the ocean and rocky outcropping beyond is visible.
Old Cemetery of Salonika, Gravestone Inscriptions
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Here is a man who revered     The Name with loveWhose name was known     For his generous spiritHe gave to charity     To failing soulsFrom his pocket and his  wealth    Until…

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

17th and 18th Centuries

Subjects:

Mourning, Burial, Cemetery, Death, Gravestones & tombs, Inscriptions

Categories:

Inscriptions, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Curaçao Cemetery, Gravestone Inscriptions
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Italics indicate that the text was written in Hebrew, not Portuguese.

Contributor:

The Jewish Community of Curaçao

Places:

Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

Early 18th Century

Subjects:

Mourning, Burial, Cemetery, Death, Gravestones & tombs, Inscriptions

Categories:

Inscriptions, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs