Here are some screenshots from A Shtetl in the Caribbean of the "new"
Jewish cemetery of Curacao. I am not certain if the many sculptures
that adorn the older graves of descendents of the Portuguese Jewish
community constitute "graven" images. But they do demonstrate that
there are broad differences of interpretation from place to place and
time to time of what is permitted and what is forbidden. As far as I
am aware, none of the Ashkenazi Jews, many of whom like my father came
from Bukovina and whose own stones lack any imagery, registered a
serious objection while alive or, for that matter, since taking up
residence there.
[Mark Wiznitzer]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28663229_at_N04/17290530692/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28663229_at_N04/17084908527/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28663229_at_N04/17291856751/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28663229_at_N04/17292123831/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28663229_at_N04/17292123951/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28663229_at_N04/16670156174/in/photostream/
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
> On the subject of pictures of the deceased on their gravestones:
>
> Not having been previously to any Russian or Soviet cemeteries,
> I first saw pictures of the deceased on their gravestones
> in the Jewish cemetery in Czernowitz.
> Compared to the old gravestones, either the traditional Jewish ones,
> or those in Austrian style, the pictorial ones seem to me in very bad
> taste,
> and strictly against Jewish tradition which forbids graven images.
>
> Mimi
> On Apr 27, 2015, at 1:22 AM, Hardy Breier wrote:
>
>> Yes Christian,
>> Everybody needs a tombstone for
>> memory, with a good picture preferably.
>> Mozart doesn't have a grave or stone,
>> Moses neither.
>> Cheops has a big pyramid.
>> 500 feet high..
>> Who the heck was Keops - what was his name ?
>>
>> Hardy
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