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Tombstone with Hebrew inscription engraved with columns, flowers in curved shape above text, and wings at the top of the stone.

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Tombstone of Joel ben Ze’ev

1744

Tomb with high tombstones on either end, with Hebrew inscriptions on outside of all sides.

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Tomb of Mordechai Meisel

1601

Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top showing men in large room walking in circle with books, the bottom showing men shoveling dirt onto grave.

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Funeral Activities

Bernard Picart

1723–1743

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.

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Ashkenazic Funeral: Carrying the Body to the Grave

Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz

1748

Tomb with high tombstones on either end, lions, shield and floral decorations on top, and Hebrew inscription on surface of stone.

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Tombstone (Prague)

1628

Tombstone of decorative foliage surrounding Hebrew inscription.

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Tombstone (Padua)

1565

Gravestones in rows.

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Cemetery (Altona)

17th and 18th Centuries

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Tombstone Inscriptions (Istanbul)

1642–1704

Manuscript with illustrations of tombs and Hebrew text.

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Tombs in the Holy Land

16th Century

Tombstone with Hebrew text.

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Tombstone of son of Ephraim Cohen

1702

Print engraving of people on boat docking at a graveyard and lifting out a tomb.

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Jewish Funeral in Ouderkerk

Romeyn de Hooghe

1675–ca. 1695

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A Night in the Old Marketplace

Y. L. Peretz

1908