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By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat,
sat and wept,
as we thought of Zion.
There on the poplars
we hung up our lyres,
for our captors asked us there for songs,
our tormentors, for amusement,
“Si…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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The first Jewish community was established in Kingston, Jamaica by refugees from Spain and Portugal after 1492. This tombstone in the cemetery of She‘are Shalom Synagogue marks the grave of Abraham…
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Kingston, Great Britain (Kingston, Jamaica)
Date:
1722
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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
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)
Date:
1705
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This tombstone of Abraham Roccas (d. 1587) is located in the Cloister of the Papal Archbasilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, in Rome, Italy.
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1587
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Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
Behold, and see our disgrace!
Our heritage has passed to aliens,
Our homes to strangers.
We have become orphans, fatherless;
Our mothers are like widows.
W…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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Mikri (“little one”) Wife of Yehuda Hamon (d. 1642)
Yesterday I was playing on the earth, in my husband’s embrace, like a tiny lamb, And an angel came and preyed upon me in his wrath…
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1642–1704
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Now since the episode of the earthquake has already been mentioned, in order that all those who come after us should be aware of it, I shall place on record what occurred in relation to the earthquake…
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Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1688
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Her bitter soul is anguished, because of her ailing wound.
The city one teeming with people is desolate, the Holy City that she had inherited.
For the glorious, sweet land, tears descend like a…
Contributor:
Netanel Crescas
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Ottoman Empire (Algeria)
Date:
First Half of the 17th Century
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Logemann began Kaddish, a series of ten ink, oil, and varnish paintings, in 1993 and completed it in 1996. Each canvas includes a circle with the Jewish memorial prayer in Hebrew and English…
Contributor:
Jane Logemann
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1995
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Lost Youth is from a series of paintings called Forever, whose themes are youth, love, and death. Hod intended this picture, which depicts attendees at the funeral of a young Israeli soldier, as more…
Contributor:
Nir Hod
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2005