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The Jewish Woman
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I am a stranger. Since no one dares approach me I would be girded with towers That wear their steep and stone-gray caps Aloft in clouds. The brazen key you will not find That locks the musty…

Contributor:

Gertrud Kolmar

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1932

Subjects:

Life cycle, Women, Jewish identity, Death, Poetry

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Poetry
Mortality
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Though Jacob Steinhardt came to be best known for his woodcuts depicting biblical and Jewish subjects, this print, made during World War I, evokes the horrors he witnessed on the battlefield. Much of…

Contributor:

Jacob Steinhardt

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1913–1914

Subjects:

Expressionism, Ecology, Life cycle, Modernism, Death

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Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of two skeletal faces.
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.
Juedisches Ceremonial (Jewish Ceremony): Death and Mourning
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This illustration depicting Jewish death and mourning rituals (a sick man on his deathbed, a body laid out for burial, and a funeral procession) appeared in the book, Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Life cycle, Mourning, Ritual & observance, Print, Death

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Print & book culture
Print of four scenes in quadrants with German headings on each: top left is sick man in bed, top right is sick man in bed surrounded by people with candles and books, bottom left is sick man lying on the floor, and bottom right is procession through city walls.