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Responsum: On the Burial of an Uncircumcised Boy
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Tuesday, parashat Shemini 5643 (1883), Sighet. To the astute and erudite master, R. Eli Marder, may his light shine. I received your letter concerning the wicked men who do not allow their sons to be…

Contributor:

Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum

Places:

Sziget, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Szigetvár, Hungary)
Sziget (Szigetvár, Hungary)

Date:

1883

Subjects:

Circumcision, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Law, Responsa
Jewish Funeral in Ouderkerk
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This etching depicts a body being brought for burial in the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish cemetery at Ouderkerk, the oldest Jewish cemetery (est. 1614) in the Netherlands, located on the Amstel River.

Contributor:

Romeyn de Hooghe

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1675–ca. 1695

Subjects:

Print, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Print engraving of people on boat docking at a graveyard and lifting out a tomb.