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Cemetery (Altona)
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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, Denmark (Altona, Germany)

Date:

17th and 18th Centuries

Subjects:

Gravestones, Cemetery, Burial, Mourning, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Gravestones in rows.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel Cemetery, Gravestone
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Manuel Levy Ximenes Belmonte (1729) and Esther de Pinto (1741)

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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

First Half of the 18th Century

Subjects:

Gravestones, Cemetery, Burial, Mourning, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Tombstone with crest on top, and twin columns of text below.
Epitaph from the Tombstone of Rebecca Henriquez da Costa
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On the day of my abundant joy illness suddenly overcame me Birth pangs and rupture overwhelmed me I gave birth and died, like a blossom I turned away And the fruit of my womb was brought with me to…

Contributor:

Rebecca Henriquez da Costa

Places:

Cassipora, Dutch Colonial Empire (Cassipora, Suriname)

Date:

1771

Subjects:

Life cycle, Death, Birth, Mourning, Tombs

Categories:

History, Inscriptions