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Burial Society Cup
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This silver beaker is one of two commissioned by the Burial Society of Worms in the eighteenth century. Beakers were used at the ceremony inducting members into the society at its annual banquet…

Contributor:

Johann Conrad Weiss

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1711/1712

Subjects:

Ritual object, Ritual & observance, Mourning, Burial society, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects, Decorative Arts
Silver cup with Hebrew inscription.
The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln
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It is not a grave that opens up to us in this book, but a human heart. the memoirs that are now seeing the light for the first time would have deserved to be published a long time…

Contributor:

David Kaufmann

Places:

Germany, Germany

Date:

1896

Subjects:

Women, Family, Children, Mourning

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
Juedisches Ceremonial (Jewish Ceremony): Death and Mourning
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This illustration depicting Jewish death and mourning rituals (a sick man on his deathbed, a body laid out for burial, and a funeral procession) appeared in the book, Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

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

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Print of four scenes in quadrants with German headings on each: top left is sick man in bed, top right is sick man in bed surrounded by people with candles and books, bottom left is sick man lying on the floor, and bottom right is procession through city walls.