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Ashkenazic Funeral: Carrying the Body to the Grave
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz’s Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden, sonderlich derer in Deutschland (Religious Constitution of Today’s Jews, Especially Those in Germany), published in…

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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1748

Subjects:

Life cycle, Community, Burial, Cemetery, Death

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Print & book culture
Print image in three panels: the top panel shows groups of men and women in courtyard outside of building, the bottom left panel shows people around body in coffin, and the bottom right panel shows people outside building.
Gravestone of Samson Wertheimer
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Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724) was the chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, a court Jew, and Habsburg financier. His grave in the Viennese Seegasse cemetery is marked with an elaborately decorated…

Places:

Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Rabbis, Finance, Community, Cemetery, Death, Gravestones & tombs

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Mausoleum in graveyard of Hebrew inscription on front, back, and sides.