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Book of Prayers for the Gravediggers Society
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This illustration from a book of prayers for the Jewish Gravediggers Society depicts the cycle of life. Figures of men and women in pairs ascend and descend the staircase, progressing from youth to…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

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

Date:

1740

Subjects:

Print, Prayer & liturgy, Mourning, Burial, Cemetery

Categories:

Print & book culture, Prayer & Liturgy
Print of multi-leveled platform with couples standing on each tier, with Hebrew text and many gravestones and figures beneath the platform, and two trees above the platform with scenes of many figures inside.
Cemetery of the Fürth Jewish Community
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This print depicting the Jewish cemetery of Fürth, Germany, is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400…

Contributor:

Johannes Alexander Böner

Places:

Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)

Date:

1705

Subjects:

Print, Mourning, Cemetery, Death, Gravestones & tombs

Categories:

Print & book culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Printed engraving of cemetery enclosed by wall with several people walking through.
Cemetery (Altona)
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The Jewish cemetery of Altona is made up of two separate cemeteries, one Sephardic (established in 1611 and later expanded several times) and one Ashkenazic (1616, also later expanded). In the…

Places:

Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)

Date:

17th and 18th Centuries

Subjects:

Mourning, Burial, Cemetery, Death, Gravestones & tombs, Inscriptions

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Gravestones in rows.