Posts Tagged ‘oregon’
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, grave art, ohio, oregon, portait, star, star of david, symbolism on October 22, 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, ohio, oregon, porcelain portrait, portrait, star, star of david, symbolism on October 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Segall Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged beth shalom cemetery, epitaphs, ohio, oregon, wordless wednesday on October 17, 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 »
Joy
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged beth shalom cemetery, ohio, oregon, portrait on October 14, 2012| 1 Comment »
When I flipped open the locket on Jacob Stein’s headstone to find this photo, I laughed out loud. The whole photo just exudes life and joy – he looks so happy and comfortable, with an expression that gives you the feeling he’s just enjoyed a good joke or story.
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: