Tombstone (Padua)

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…

Mikri (“little one”) Wife of Yehuda Hamon (d. 1642) Yesterday I was playing on the earth, in my husband’s embrace, like a tiny lamb, And an angel came and preyed upon me in his wrath…

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 5486May her soul be…

Here is a man who revered     The Name with loveWhose name was known     For his generous spiritHe gave to charity     To failing soulsFrom his pocket and his  wealth    Until…

Manuel Levy Ximenes Belmonte (1729) and Esther de Pinto (1741)