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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

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Tombstone Inscriptions (Istanbul)

1642–1704

Manuscript with illustrations of tombs and Hebrew text.

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Tombs in the Holy Land

16th Century

Print engraving of people on boat docking at a graveyard and lifting out a tomb.

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Jewish Funeral in Ouderkerk

Romeyn de Hooghe

1675–ca. 1695

Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text and an illustration of a naked boy sitting next to a deer on bottom margin of left-hand page.

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Moses Narboni’s Commentary on Ibn Tufayl’s Ḥay ibn Yaqzan

Solomon Norzi

1527

Watercolor depicting two woman standing wearing head coverings and dresses with Latin text above.

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Jewish Widow and Jewish Matron

1574

Painting with Hebrew and Portuguese text throughout, and depiction of man in graveyard accompanied by servant seeing decaying corpse being picked apart by crows.

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A Memento Mori

Benjamin Senior Godines

1681

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Schraubtaler (Screw Medal) of Jud Süss Oppenheimer

1738

Print in two panels, with miniature portraits of two men at top of page, and German text below each panel: the top panel of procession of many people through city square, and the bottom panel of large crowd of people outdoors around a gallows on a tower.

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The Hanging of Jud Süss

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot | Lucas Conrad Pfandzelt

1738

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Lament on the Ukrainian Massacre

Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi

1648

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Lament over the Jews of Kremzir

Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi

1648