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Book of Prayers for the Gravediggers Society
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This illustration from a book of prayers for the Jewish Gravediggers Society depicts the cycle of life. Figures of men and women in pairs ascend and descend the staircase, progressing from youth to…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1740

Subjects:

Print, Prayer & liturgy, Mourning, Burial, Cemetery

Categories:

Print & book culture, Prayer & Liturgy
Print of multi-leveled platform with couples standing on each tier, with Hebrew text and many gravestones and figures beneath the platform, and two trees above the platform with scenes of many figures inside.
Ashkenazic Funeral: Carrying the Body to the Grave
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz’s Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden, sonderlich derer in Deutschland (Religious Constitution of Today’s Jews, Especially Those in Germany), published in…

Contributor:

Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1748

Subjects:

Life cycle, Community, Burial, Cemetery, Death

Categories:

Print & book culture
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.
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…

Places:

Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)

Date:

17th and 18th Centuries

Subjects:

Mourning, Burial, Cemetery, Death, Gravestones & tombs, Inscriptions

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Gravestones in rows.