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Gravestone of Mordechai Franco Mendes and His Wife Sara Franco Mendes
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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…

Places:

Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Dutch Republic (Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands)

Date:

1687 and 1696

Subjects:

Cemetery, Death, Marriage, Sephardic, Dreams

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Tombstone flat on ground of panels of scenes with figures and animals above and below arch-enclosed Hebrew inscription.
Gravestone of Rachel Pereira
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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…

Places:

Kingston, British America and the British West Indies (Kingston, Jamaica)

Date:

1721

Subjects:

Cemetery, Death, Sephardic, Refugees

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Decorative Arts
Tombstone with inscription in Hebrew and Portuguese above floral motifs and engraving of hand with an ax reaching out of cloud to chop down tree.