File:Old Jewish Burial Ground (Boston Public Library).jpg

BPLDC no.: 08_04_000459

Page Title: Old Jewish Burial Ground

Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection

Album: Volume 4: Austria.

Call no.: 4098B.104 v4 (p. 14)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Genre: Scrapbooks; Albumen prints

Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on page : albumen ; page 33 x 39 cm.

Description: Scrapbook page contains one photograph showing an old Jewish burial ground in Prague. Annotated information describes the head stones and tells the history of the site.

Transcription: This place of interment has not been used since 1780. It is crowded with stone of great antiquity. The buried dead are laid, as is the Jewish custom, one above the other in new layers of earth, without moving or disturbing, where the past dead are buried; here they lie on this silent resting place far above the level upon which their synagogue was built-Many of these crowding clustering stones have the signs of the tribes upon them-The hands of Aaron, the cup of Levi, the stag, the fish, the double triangle David's sign-Many of the stone are inscribed in Hebrew-Jewish tradition says that this burial place was founded by a company of Jews who fled from the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus. The oldest date remaining on the stones is A.D. 606.

Notes: Page description supplied by cataloger, derived from captions and/or annotated information.

BPL Department: Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

Flickr data on 2011-08-09:

• Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m
• License: CC BY 2.0
• User: Boston Public Library BPL