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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)
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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)
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First Half of the 18th Century
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A group of elaborate tombs was found on the slopes of Jerusalem’s Hinnom Valley, including a cluster at Ketef Hinnom behind what is now the Menachem Begin Center. This is an artist's reconstruction of…
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Ketef Hinnom, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1748
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Gravestone of honorable old lady Sra Rachel, wife of the wealthy citizen the honorable R. Jacob Fernandes Gill, deceased, seventh day of Passover, 22 Nisan 5486
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17th and 18th Centuries
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[This is the grave] of the blessed, revered, and God-fearing Abraham Baruh Henriques, who, in his life, sustained this Holy Synagogue of Nidhe Israel and protected it with…
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Barbados, British America and the British West Indies (Barbados)
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1700–1750
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Crowds of people had been gathering since dawn at the morgue next to the city hospital. Drowsy, shivering, in damp gray clothes, they warmed themselves by huddling in one another’s breath. Their faces…
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Yoysef Smolazh
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Warsaw, Poland
Date:
1937
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On the grounds of the St. Étienne monastery, north of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, were two elaborate burial caves that each included a large central hall surrounded by several rectangular rooms…
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age II, 9th–7th Century BCE
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Romeyn de Hooghe
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1675–ca. 1695