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Passages, Homage to Walter Benjamin
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Passages is a memorial in Portbou, Spain, created by Karavan to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of cultural critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. Benjamin committed suicide in Portbou…

Contributor:

Dani Karavan

Places:

Portbou, Spain

Date:

1994

Subjects:

Art, Memorial, Exile, Holocaust, Cemetery, Gravestones & tombs, Architecture

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Architecture
Photograph of metal sculpture in the shape of a V through which the ocean and rocky outcropping beyond is visible.
Tombs from Ketef Hinnom Cemetery
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A group of elaborate tombs was found on the slopes of Jerusalem’s Hinnom Valley, including a cluster at Ketef Hinnom behind what is now the Menachem Begin Center. This is an artist's reconstruction of…

Places:

Ketef Hinnom, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Jerusalem, Burial, Cemetery, Gravestones & tombs, Architecture

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Architecture
Drawing of reconstructed tomb cutout of a chamber built along hills.
St. Etienne Burial Caves
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On the grounds of the St. Étienne monastery, north of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, were two elaborate burial caves that each included a large central hall surrounded by several rectangular rooms…

Places:

Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age II, 9th–7th Century BCE

Subjects:

Leadership, Family, Burial, Cemetery, Gravestones & tombs, Architecture

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Architecture
Photograph of room with inner doorways.