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Gravestone of Abraham Cohen Pimentel
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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…

Places:

Altona, Habsburg Empire (Altona, Germany)

Date:

1697

Subjects:

Cemetery, Death, Rabbis, Scholarship, Priest/priesthood

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Tombstone in the shape of a triangular prism with carving of open book on short end with Hebrew and Portuguese inscriptions and decoration along length of stone.
Seal of the Jewish Publication Society of America
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The Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) was founded in Philadelphia in 1888. (It had a number of precursors that did not last.) Today, JPS is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher…

Contributor:

Moses Ezekiel

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Israel/Israelis, Diaspora, Aesthetics, Scholarship

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Drawing of a round seal with lion, lamb, child, snake, and Star of David which reads in English, "Israel's Mission is Peace."