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The Kaddish

Isak Samokovlija

1928

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Lamentations

Alter Brody

1918

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Abischag

André Spire

1925

Portrait of bearded man wearing a fur coat.

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Statement of Mourning

Akiva Eger

1796

Tombstone with Hebrew inscription in geometric shape with columns and animals surrounding.

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Tombstone of Isaac ben Hayyim

1728

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

Gravestones in rows.

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Cemetery (Altona)

17th and 18th Centuries

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Poem on the Pestilence of 1713

Moses Eisenstadt

1713

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Yado ba-kol (His Hand Against Every Man)

Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari

Beginning of the 18th Century

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Lament on the Fire of Salonika

Benjamin ha-Levi Ashkenazi

ca. 1545

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The Funeral’s Early...

Abraham Sutzkever

1975