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A Field Guide to
Visiting a Jewish Cemetery: A Spiritual
Journey
to the Past, Present and Future
By Joshua L. Segal, Rabbi
This guide integrates the physical aspects
of Jewish monuments
with the spiritual and technical
significance of tombstone inscriptions.
The material presented is simple enough that
it can be understood by
those with the most minimal exposure to
Hebrew, but it is comprehensive enough to be
a valuable resource to the most
sophisticated Jewish
readers. It has a dictionary of Hebrew words
found on tombstones
and also includes common expressions that
appear.
Softcover; 214 pages, Black and white
photos, index.
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Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery
Symbolism and Iconography
by Douglas Keister
Stories in Stone
provides history along with images of a wide
variety of common and not-so-common cemetery
symbols, and offers an in-depth examination
of stone relics and the personal and
intimate details they display-flora and
fauna, religious icons, society symbols, and
final impressions of how the deceased wished
to be remembered. Douglas Keister has
created a practical field guide that is
compact and portable, perfect for those
interested in family histories and
genealogical research, and is the only book
of its kind that unlocks the language of
symbols in a comprehensive and
easy-to-understand manner.
Hardcover; 288 pages, many color photos
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Crown Hill Cemetery:
Exploring and Learning About Life
An Educator's Handbook
This handbook focuses on
activities to do with students to teach them
about
cemeteries. Although it was written to
be used at Crown Hill Cemetery in
Indianapolis, the information in the book is
presented so that educators
could use it in
any cemetery. Activities include:
history of a cemetery,
identifying stone
types and symbols, nature, art, and
gathering information
recorded on stones.
Designed for elementary school age.
Softbound; 24 pages
Graven Images:
New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols,
1650-1815
by Allan I. Ludwig
This book includes a thorough background of
Puritan religion; a beautifully illustrated
cataloging of symbols and their meanings;
and sources and definitions of the major New
England styles. “Provocative and
stimulating...[This] is a valuable effort to
appraise a provincial craft in relation to
the
society in which it flourished.”
New York Times
Book Review
Softbound; 532 pages,
505 illustrations
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