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Moses Mordechai Margaliot (d. 1617) was a member of a family descended from the illustrious medieval scholar Rashi. Margaliot served as a rabbi in Kraków. He was buried in the cemetery of the Rema…
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1617
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This gravestone in the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Netherlands (est. 1614), that of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam, is inscribed in memory of Mordechai Franco Mendes (d…
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Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Dutch Republic (Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands)
Date:
1687 and 1696
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This gravestone is inscribed in memory of Abraham Cohen Pimentel, who served as rabbi of the Portuguese Synagogue (Esnoga) in Amsterdam, and also as hakham in the Hamburg synagogue. A student of Saul…
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Altona, Habsburg Empire (Altona, Germany)
Date:
1697
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In reference to the deceased’s name, the central verse fragment on this monument reads “And Mordechai came before the king . . .” (Esther 8:1), and the top panel contains a low relief of a richly clad…
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)
Date:
1716
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Rachel Soares Pereira, who died in 1721 at the age of twenty-four, was married to Isaac Pereira. Floral motifs decorate the top of her gravestone, while the bottom panel contains a relief of a hand…
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Kingston, British America and the British West Indies (Kingston, Jamaica)
Date:
1721
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This etching depicts a body being brought for burial in the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish cemetery at Ouderkerk, the oldest Jewish cemetery (est. 1614) in the Netherlands, located on the Amstel River.
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Romeyn de Hooghe
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1675–ca. 1695
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Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724) was the chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, a court Jew, and Habsburg financier. His grave in the Viennese Seegasse cemetery is marked with an elaborately decorated…
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1724
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Tombstone of Hendl bat Eberl Geronim, wife of the Court Jew Jacob Bassevi von Treuenberg (1570–1634), in the Jewish cemetery in Prague. The Hebrew date on the top part of the stone indicates that she…
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1628
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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…
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Jamaica, British America and the British West Indies (Jamaica)
Date:
17th and 18th Centuries
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[This is the grave] of the blessed, revered, and God-fearing Abraham Baruh Henriques, who, in his life, sustained this Holy Synagogue of Nidhe Israel and protected it with…
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Barbados, British America and the British West Indies (Barbados)
Date:
1700–1750