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A Letter from Mama Camouna

Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff

1968

Rectangular chamber in ground with steps and several doorways.

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Double Burial Chamber in St. Étienne Cemetery

Iron Age II, 9th–7th Century BCE

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Sefer ha-zikaron (The Book of Memory)

Moses Sofer

1809

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

Gravestones in rows.

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Cemetery (Altona)

17th and 18th Centuries

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

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Tombstone of Isaac ben Hayyim

1728

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

Manuscript with illustrations of tombs and Hebrew text.

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Tombs in the Holy Land

16th Century

Painting of church ruins, stream, and graves beneath clouds.

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The Jewish Cemetery at Ouderkerk

Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael

ca. 1654/5

Drawing of reconstructed tomb cutout of a chamber built along hills.

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Tombs from Ketef Hinnom Cemetery

Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE

Photograph of building with dome roof.

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Ceremonial Hall, New Jewish Cemetery, Vienna

Ignaz Reiser

1928

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A Common Grave

Yehudit Hendel

1950