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The Open Grave
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Crowds of people had been gathering since dawn at the morgue next to the city hospital. Drowsy, shivering, in damp gray clothes, they warmed themselves by huddling in one another’s breath. Their faces…

Contributor:

Yoysef Smolazh

Places:

Warsaw, Poland

Date:

1937

Subjects:

Death, Cemetery, Burial, Mourning, Community

Categories:

Literature, Fiction
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…

Contributor:

Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz

Places:

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

Date:

1748

Subjects:

Life cycle, Death, Burial, Cemetery, Community

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, 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.