Author: Joshua L. Segal Publisher: Conran Octopus ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 254
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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.
Author: Joshua Segal Publisher: ISBN: 9780976405771 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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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.
Author: Allan Amanik Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479800805 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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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.
Author: Joachim Jacobs Publisher: White Lion Publishing ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
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.
Author: L H (Leon H ) 1873- Elmaleh Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781014686275 Category : Languages : en Pages : 64
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Author: United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad Publisher: ISBN: Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Languages : en Pages : 200
Author: Thomas H. Keels Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738512297 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 136
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Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, is the final resting place of some of the nation's greatest citizens. The burial grounds of Christ Church hold the remains of Benjamin Franklin and six other signers of the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia pioneered the development of the rural cemetery with the establishment of Laurel Hill, eternal home to Gettysburg hero George Gordon Meade and thirty-nine other Civil War-era generals. In Philadelphia's Jewish, Catholic, and African American burial grounds rest such notable figures as Rebecca Gratz, model for the Jewish heroine of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe; John Barry, Catholic father of the U.S. Navy; and Octavius Catto, an African American civil-rights leader of the nineteenth century. Finally, there are the vanished cemeteries, such as Monument, Lafayette, and Franklin. Transformed into playgrounds and parking lots, these cemeteries were obliterated with sometimes horrific callousness. Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries tells the intriguing history of these burial grounds, whether revered or long forgotten.
Author: Joshua L. Segal
Author: Joshua Segal
Author: Allan Amanik
Author: Joachim Jacobs
Author: Joshua L. Segal
Author: Susan Morris
Author: L H (Leon H ) 1873- Elmaleh
Author: Alice Perkins Gould
Author: United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad
Author: Thomas H. Keels