Posts Tagged ‘hebrew’
Portraits
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged beth shalom cemetery, grave art, hebrew, ohio, oregon, porcelain portrait, portrait, star, star of david, symbolism on October 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Portraits
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged beth shalom cemetery, epitaphs, grave art, hebrew, ohio, oregon, porcelain portrait, portrait, star, star of david, symbolism on October 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Portraits
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged beth shalom cemetery, epitaphs, grave art, hebrew, ohio, oregon, portrait, star, star of david, symblism on October 15, 2012| 1 Comment »
Portraits
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged beth shalom cemetery, grave art, hebrew, ohio, oregon, porcelain portrait, portrait, star, star of david, symbolism on October 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Stars of David
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged beth shalom cemetery, grave art, hebrew, judaism, ohio, oregon, star, star of david, symbolism on October 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »
One of the most commonly recognized symbols of Judaism is the Star of David, a hexagram created by two overlapping triangles.
Protection
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beth shalom cemetery, grave art, hebrew, ohio, oregon, porcelain portrait, portrait, star, star of david, symbolism on October 11, 2012| 1 Comment »
Some of you might remember when I found what might best be explained as a metal locket protecting a portrait on a tombstone. I haven’t seen another one since then until last weekend, when we were coming back from a trip to Michigan. We came across a cemetery filled with tombstones featuring portraits, and some of them had the metal casing with a flip-top cover. Some were broken:
Some were intact:
Porcelain Portraits
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beth shalom cemetery, grave art, hebrew, laurel wreath, ohio, oregon, porcelain portrait, portrait, star, star of david, symbolism, wreath on October 8, 2012| 3 Comments »
We spent last weekend at an event in Saline, Michigan, and on the way back, we stopped at some rural Ohio cemeteries. We stumbled by accident over the Beth Shalom Cemetery in Oregon, Ohio. Anyone who’s been following this blog for any length of time knows of my fondness for memorials that include a portrait of the deceased, and my not-so-infrequent rants abut the destruction of porcelain portraits. Beth Shalom Cemetery has a large number of portraits, and I only noticed two empty spaces where portraits should have been but were missing. So over the next few weeks, I am happy to report that you will be seeing a lot more portraits on here. (And some new cemeteries in general.)
She gave unselfish love, her works praise her
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged beth shalom cemetery, epitaphs, grave art, hebrew, ohio, oregon, portrait, sculpture, symbolism, tombstone tales, tree on October 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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