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Funeral Activities
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1723–1743

Subjects:

Life cycle, Death, Mourning, Cemetery, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
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.
Oldest Jewish Cemetery in America
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The oldest Jewish cemetery in the United States is located in New York City; the grave of Cantor Gershom Mendes Seixas can be seen here in the burial grounds of Congregation Shearith Israel.

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Photographer Unknown

Places:

New York City, United States of America

Date:

1798

Subjects:

Life cycle, Death, Mourning, Cemetery, Burial

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Photograph of headstones in cemetery.
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, Death, Burial, Cemetery, Community

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, 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.