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This tombstone of Joel ben Ze’ev, who died in 1744, is topped with a carving of an eagle. Winged griffins and eagles symbolize God’s power. Only the wealthy could afford stone markers before the…
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Smotrych, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Smotrych, Ukraine)
Date:
1744
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[ . . . . . . . . ] and cut (a treaty) [
[ . . . e]l my father went up [against him when] he was fighting in Abe[l?]
And my father lay down, he went to his [ancestors (or: eternal place)]. And the…
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Dan, Land of Israel (Tel Dan, Israel)
Date:
Late 9th Century BCE
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Sarah Soncino, who died in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey) in 1735, was a member of the prominent Soncino family, which established a printing press there in 1530, one in a long line of…
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Türkiye)
Date:
1735