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The Jewish cemetery of Altona is made up of two separate cemeteries, one Sephardic (established in 1611 and later expanded several times) and one Ashkenazic (1616, also later expanded). In the…
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
17th and 18th Centuries
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Manuel Levy Ximenes Belmonte (1729) and Esther de Pinto (1741)
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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Tombstone of a son of Ephraim Cohen, who was buried in a Jewish cemetery in Cochin, India. The first Jewish communities in Cochin were established as early as 1000 CE, and legends claim that Jews were…
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin (Ernakulam, India)
Date:
1702
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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
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Poleň (Polin), Holy Roman Empire (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1691
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…
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Bernard Picart
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1725
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The title of this etching comes from the inscription that appears on the lower left. The picture depicts a Hasidic Jew in Jerusalem praying at the Western Wall, the remnant of the Second Temple that…
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Hermann Struck
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1905
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Mourning activities, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 1380 BCE. Sitting on the ground and putting dust on the head are expressions of mourning, as in this mural showing a widow with the mummy of her husband…
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ca. 1380 BCE
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This tombstone of Joel ben Ze’ev, who died in 1744, is topped with a carving of an eagle. Winged griffins and eagles symbolize God’s power. Only the wealthy could afford stone markers before the…
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Smotrych, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Smotrych, Ukraine)
Date:
1744
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Sarah Soncino, who died in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey) in 1735, was a member of the prominent Soncino family, which established a printing press there in 1530, one in a long line of…
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1735
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This beaker was used by the members of a burial society in Prague at their annual banquet, held on the day traditionally designated as the anniversary of Moses’ death. The painted scene depicts a…
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1713