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Kaddish: Hymmnn

Allen Ginsberg

1959

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

Tombstone with Hebrew text.

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Tombstone of son of Ephraim Cohen

1702

Glass beaker with painting of figures carrying enclosed stretcher.

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Beaker of the Polin Burial Society

1691

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A Proper Time for Everything

Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

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The Swedish Siege of Prague

1649

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Yeven metsulah (Abyss of Despair)

Nathan Hannover

1653

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Poem on the Pestilence of 1713

Moses Eisenstadt

1713

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Kitāb-i Sar-guzasht-i Kāshān (The Book of Events in Kashan)

Bābāī ibn Farhād

Mid– to Late 18th Century

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Sefer ha-ḥezyonot (The Book of Visions): On the Afterlife

Ḥayim Vital

Second Half of the 16th Century