Download or read book A Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery written by Joshua L. Segal and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 2007 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery clearly offers something missing in Jewish genealogical research: a good book on understanding the ways of Jewish cemeteries and how to interpret the Hebrew inscriptions on tombstones. The fact that tombstone inscriptions are in Hebrew can be a challenge to some researchers. But the material presented in the book is simple enough that it can be understood by those with the most minimal exposure to Hebrew. Yet it is comprehensive enough to be a valuable resource to the most sophisticated Jewish readers. It has a dictionary of Hebrew words found on tombstones but also includes common expressions that appear. The carving of a tombstone can be expensive and sometimes Hebrew expressions are represented in abbreviated form. An appendix shows commonly used abbreviations.
Download or read book Houses of Life written by Joachim Jacobs and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish cemeteries are called Houses of Life for good reason. This book shows how burial grounds across Europe reflect the ways that specific Jewish communities have lived and continue to live. Thirty cemeteries are profiled, starting with the Roman era, running through Islamic Spain and medieval Italy to baroque and 19th-century Germany, and ending in present-day Britain and France. Each cemetery is illustrated with historical and current plans, maps, paintings, drawings, and photographs of both the cemeteries and the communities they have served.
Download or read book East End Jewish Cemeteries written by Louis Berk and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fine art photography and a history of two fascinating Jewish cemeteries in London's East End.
Download or read book A Traveler s Guide to Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries of the California Gold Rush written by Susan Morris and published by Judah L. Magnes Museum. This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dust to Dust written by Allan Amanik and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at how death and burial practices influence the living Dust to Dust offers a three-hundred-year history of Jewish life in New York, literally from the ground up. Taking Jewish cemeteries as its subject matter, it follows the ways that Jewish New Yorkers have planned for death and burial from their earliest arrival in New Amsterdam to the twentieth century. Allan Amanik charts a remarkable reciprocity among Jewish funerary provisions and the workings of family and communal life, tracing how financial and family concerns in death came to equal earlier priorities rooted in tradition and communal cohesion. At the same time, he shows how shifting emphases in death gave average Jewish families the ability to advocate for greater protections and entitlements such as widows’ benefits and funeral insurance. Amanik ultimately concludes that planning for life’s end helps to shape social systems in ways that often go unrecognized.
Download or read book The Old Jewish Cemeteries at Charleston S C written by Barnett Abraham Elzas and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Jewish Cemeteries of Newark written by Alice Perkins Gould and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remnant Stones written by Aviva Ben-Ur and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1660s, Jews of Iberian ancestry, many of them fleeing Inquisitorial persecution, established an agrarian settlement in the midst of the Surinamese tropics. The heart of this community-Jodensavanne, or Jews' Savannah-became an autonomous village with its own Jewish institutions, including a majestic synagogue consecrated in 1685. Situated along the Suriname River, some fifty kilometers south of the capital city of Paramaribo, Jodensavanne was by the mid-eighteenth century surrounded by dozens of Jewish plantations sprawling north- and southward and dominating the stretch of the river. These Sephardi-owned plots, mostly devoted to the cultivation and processing of sugar, carried out primarily by enslaved Africans, collectively formed the largest Jewish agricultural community in the world at the time and the only Jewish settlement in the Americas granted virtual self-rule. Sephardi settlement paved the way for the influx of hundreds of Ashkenazi Jews, who began to emigrate in the late seventeenth century from western and central Europe. Generally banned from Jodensavanne, these newcomers settled in Paramaribo, where they established their own cemeteries and historic synagogue. Meanwhile, slave rebellions, Maroon attacks, the general collapse of Suriname's economy, soil depletion, absentee land ownership, and a ravaging fire all contributed to the demise of the old Savannah settlement beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century..
Download or read book Savannah s Old Jewish Community Cemeteries written by B. H. Levy and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jewish Cemetery in the United States written by Joshua Segal and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of cemetery history in the American Jewish community has been driven by two forces: changes in cemetery and burial practices in America, and the gradual acculturation of American Jews. These forces have exerted more influence than have either Jewish customs (min-hag) or Jewish law (halakhah). The first Jewish cemeteries in America followed a pattern of evolution similar to that in non-Jewish cemeteries. Backyard burials were replaced by colonial cemeteries which in turn were replaced by rural cemeteries and park cemeteries. When memorial parks became part of the American funerary landscape, they also became part of the Jewish funerary landscape.As crypt burial became popular in the non-Jewish world, it also began to appear in Reform and for-profit cemeteries in the Jewish world. The forms of markers came from a common set of catalogues and carvers, so there are very few unique Jewish marker forms.The length and quantity of epitaphs waxed and waned in both Jewish and non-Jewish cemeteries. By the mid-twentieth century, epitaphs included much more secular material.Immigrant populations often wrote their inscriptions in the language of the country from which they emigrated. By the second generation, language becomes predominantly English - with Jewish cemeteries retaining Hebrew as well.Increases in Jews marrying non-Jews created challenges.There has been some amalgamation of non-Jewish customs and symbols in Jewish cemeteries. This syncretism has also affected non-Jewish cemeteries, where Jewish symbols can appear. The placement of "pebbles," which was once just a Jewish custom, has become universal. As Yiddish words have become part of the American lexicon, they also appear in non-Jewish epitaphs.Ultimately, cemetery policy is driven by the needs of the bereaved. Policies are usually defined by the local community and/or the trustees who operate the cemetery.In addition to syncretism, it is important to note that traditional cemetery motifs tend to survive despite the use of non-traditional burial practices. Some examples include the use of Hebrew on mausoleums, the use of priestly and Levitic symbolism on columbariums, and the use of traditional texts on pagan marker forms such as obelisks.
Download or read book OLD JEWISH CEMETERIES AT CHARL written by Barnett a. (Barnett Abraham) 186 Elzas and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Old Jewish Cemeteries at Charleston S C a Transcript of the Inscriptions on Their Tombstones 1762 1903 written by Barnett a 1867-1936 Elzas and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Jewish Cemeteries of Shreveport Louisiana written by Eric J. Brock and published by . This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carved in Granite written by Alvin M. Poplack and published by Jay Street Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report based on research conducted by Poplack for his doctoral dissertation - Jewish Teachers Seminary, New York. Describes the different types of memorials for Holocaust victims found in New York cemeteries, with numerous photographs. Pp. 95-175 contain appendices.
Download or read book The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning written by Maurice Lamm and published by Jonathan David Publishers. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very detailed guide to the traditional aspects of Jewish observances of Death and Mouring. It is a must for every Jew -- Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, or un-affiliated!
Download or read book The Old Jewish Cemeteries at Charleston S C A Transcript of the Inscriptions on Their Tombstones 1762 1903 With an Introduction and Full Index written by Barnett Abraham Elzas and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2017-08-20 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Old Jewish Cemeteries at Charleston S C written by Barnett a (Barnett Abraham) Elzas and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
