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A field guide to visiting a Jewish cemetery : a spiritual journey to the past, present and future /

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 t...

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Main Author: Segal, Joshua L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Hebrew
Published: Nashua, NH : Jewish Cemetery Publishing, ©2005.
Subjects and Genres:
Jewish cemeteries > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Inscriptions, Hebrew > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Names, Personal > Jewish > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Jews > Genealogy > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Inscriptions, Hebrew.
Jewish cemeteries.
Jews.
Names, Personal > Jewish.
Jews > Cemeteries.
United States > Minorities > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
United States > Cemeteries > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Jewish cemetery
  • 2. Monument inscriptions
  • 3. Monuments 101
  • 4. Tombstone art
  • 5. The introductory line
  • 6. Name line
  • 7. The date line
  • 8. Epitaphs, Standard
  • 9. Acrostics, poetry and other longer epitaphs
  • 10. Epitaphs of general interest
  • 11. Monument fabrication and errors
  • 12. Sample monument inscriptions
  • Appendix A. Holiday differences for Jews living in Israel and Reform Jews
  • Appendix B. Translations of epitaphs in Hamadrikh
  • Appendix C. Annotated bibliography
  • Appendix D. Abbreviations and prefixes
  • Index.

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