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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

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Jamaica Cemetery, Gravestone Inscriptions

17th and 18th Centuries

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Barbados Cemetery, Gravestone Inscriptions

1700–1750

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

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Founding Charter

Ḥevra Kadisha of Prague

16th Century

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Responsum: On the Burial of an Uncircumcised Boy

Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum

1883

Stone piece with carving of small hand with fingers pointing downward and Hebrew inscription.

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Hamsa-like Hand in Khirbet el-Kom (Makkedah) Tomb

Iron Age II, 8th Century BCE

Photograph of room with inner doorways.

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St. Etienne Burial Caves

Iron Age II, 9th–7th Century BCE

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Shevet musar (Rod of Correction): On Contemplating Death

Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari

1712

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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Sefer ha-ḥayim (The Book of Life)

Simon Frankfurt

1703

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

Silver cup with Hebrew inscription.

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Burial Society Cup

Johann Conrad Weiss

1711/1712

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