Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Puttin' On The Ritz...

The inscription for the elegantly-dressed gentleman pictured here reads

Our beloved father
An honest and righteous man
Reb Moshe Yitzhak
son of Yehezkiel
At the very bottom of the image is inscribed the family name, Black (here phonetically spelled as "Bleck.")

In this cemetery in Woburn, I saw several tombstones from the 1920's and '30s with these little portraits of the deceased. This is something I've never seen in the Baltimore area, except in recent years among Jews who immigrated from the former Soviet Union since the 1970s.



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Blogger Warren T. said...

Steve, mini-headstone portraits have been very popular here on the West Coast for Asian/Chinese people.

--WT

Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 4:12:00 PM PDT  

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