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Page of printed Hebrew text surrounded by columns, foliage, and lintel.

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Sefer Raziel (The Book of Raziel)

Moses Mendez Coutinho

1701

Facing-page printed text with Hebrew on right side and image of hand with Hebrew letters in side on left side.

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Zeh ha-sefer toledot Adam (This Is the Book of the Generations of Adam)

Moses ben Elijah Gallena

1715

Facing-page Hebrew manuscript with charts with Hebrew letters on left side, and geometric drawings on right side.

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Toledot Adam (The Generations of Adam)

Elijah Loanz

1734

Glass cup etched with Hebrew text and image of group of people walking.

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Glass for a Burial Society’s Annual Banquet

1713

Tomb with high tombstones on either end, with Hebrew inscriptions on outside of all sides.

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Tomb of Mordechai Meisel

1601

Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top showing men in large room walking in circle with books, the bottom showing men shoveling dirt onto grave.

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Funeral Activities

Bernard Picart

1723–1743

Print of four scenes in quadrants with German headings on each: top left is sick man in bed, top right is sick man in bed surrounded by people with candles and books, bottom left is sick man lying on the floor, and bottom right is procession through city walls.

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Juedisches Ceremonial (Jewish Ceremony): Death and Mourning

Paul Christian Kirchner

1724

Silver cup with Hebrew inscription.

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Burial Society Cup

Johann Conrad Weiss

1711/1712

Print image in three panels: the top panel shows groups of men and women in courtyard outside of building, the bottom left panel shows people around body in coffin, and the bottom right panel shows people outside building.

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Ashkenazic Funeral: Carrying the Body to the Grave

Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz

1748

Tomb with high tombstones on either end, lions, shield and floral decorations on top, and Hebrew inscription on surface of stone.

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Tombstone (Prague)

1628

Tombstone of decorative foliage surrounding Hebrew inscription.

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Tombstone (Padua)

1565

Gravestones in rows.

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Cemetery (Altona)

17th and 18th Centuries