Illustrations of the burial rites of the Sephardi Jewish community in Amsterdam. Top image: Circling or the seven turns around the coffin. Bottom image: Assistants shoveling earth onto the corpse. Image from: Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses des peuples du monde. French. Exhibited: From this world to the next: Jewish approaches to illness, death & the afterlife. JTS, December 1999-April 2000. Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Library. Broadside. PNT C3.1.2d |