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Everyone Who Mourns Jerusalem Reaps Its Joy (at the Wailing Wall)
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The title of this etching comes from the inscription that appears on the lower left. The picture depicts a Hasidic Jew in Jerusalem praying at the Western Wall, the remnant of the Second Temple that…

Contributor:

Hermann Struck

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

ca. 1905

Subjects:

Modernism, Jewish identity, Jerusalem, Piety, Mourning

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Etching of figure facing a wall.
Tombstone (Rome)
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This tombstone of Abraham Roccas (d. 1587) is located in the Cloister of the Papal Archbasilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, in Rome, Italy.

Places:

Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)

Date:

1587

Subjects:

Death, Gravestones, Tombs, Mourning, Jewish identity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Cylindrical tombstone with Hebrew on top, sitting on decorative base.