Language:
English
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Sephardic Horizons
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,3 (2012)
Keywords:
Lopez family
;
Jewish cemeteries
;
Jewish cemeteries
;
Jews History
;
Sephardim History
;
Sephardim Customs and practices
;
Jewish epitaphs
;
Jewish sepulchral monuments
;
Burial Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Burial laws (Jewish law)
;
Newport (R.I.)
Abstract:
Describes gravestones of the Sephardic Lopez family whose members were buried in the Touro Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island, between the mid-18th to mid-19th centuries. Focuses on the issue of "graven images" (e.g. angels, cherubs, the hand of God) which are forbidden according to Jewish law; these did not appear in the 18th century, and only sparsely in the 19th century. States that "deviant" iconographic elements of the Touro Cemetery should be understood as being related to Sephardic burial patterns inherited from the Spanish-Portuguese community in Amsterdam, rather than reflecting either a local Christian influence or a reform-minded rebellion against Sephardic orthopraxy. Discusses, also, patterns in the Amsterdam Sephardic cemetery and compares them with those in Newport.
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