All these synagogues stood at the graves of the amoraim whose names they bore. These examples show that the synagogues bearing the names of Biblical or Talmudic celebrities were often similar in character to the "ḳubbah" (vault; Hebr. ) regularly built over the grave of a Mohammedan ...
The Jews were again forbidden to leave their ghetto, and were even prohibited from erecting monuments on their graves. In 1784 three Jews were murdered in the public streets, and two Jewish children were forcibly baptized. The Roman community therefore found it necessary to confer with the ...
From there one descends stairs with a candle in hand. Upon reaching the third cave one will find six graves. These are the graves of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and opposite them, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah." Safed is considered the third holy city for the Jews in the Land of Israel. ...
Like in Poland, the Ukrainian population led the Germans to a multitude of mass graves testifying to the blood orgies the Jewish Commies had perpetrated on the Ukrainians before being forced to retreat. When the German lines were stretched in the vast spaces of Russia and the Soviets organized...
After decorating the Confederate graves, the women walk over to a small plot where forty Union soldiers are buried. Gently they scatter Southern magnolia blossoms on the Northern graves. The news of this unselfish, compassionate gesture spreads quickly and touches everyone. Newspaper editorials praise...
They bury their dead at once, not in coffins, but in graves lined with stones. Lamentations are continued for seven days; on the third and seventh days an offering is brought, and it is believed that until this has been done the soul remains in the "valley of death." During the seven...
Israel is forbidden to eat, or associate, or intermarry with them, because "they sacrifice to the dead, worship evil spirits, and eat over the graves; because all their ways are unclean, and they will be destroyed from the earth, nor will they be saved on the Day of Judgment" (ch. ...
“An eyewitness stated that the alleged poison gas had a delayed action: it allowed the victims to leave the gas chambers and walk to the mass graves by themselves.”– Repts. of the Polish Underground, Archiv der Polnischen Vereinigten Arbeiterpartei, 202/III,v.7,pp.120f.,quoted in: P...
1765. Moses ha-Yerushalmi (author of "Yede Mosheh," description of sacred graves). 1768. Pereẓ b. Moses (author of "Shebaḥ u-Tehillah le-Ereẓ Yisrael," Amsterdam, 1769). 1777. Israel Politzki, Menahem Mendel of Vitebsk, and Abraham Kalisker (Luncz, "Jerusalem." v. 164-174...
All these synagogues stood at the graves of the amoraim whose names they bore. These examples show that the synagogues bearing the names of Biblical or Talmudic celebrities were often similar in character to the "ḳubbah" (vault; Hebr. ) regularly built over the grave of a Mohammedan ...