Puttin' On The Ritz...
The inscription for the elegantly-dressed gentleman pictured here readsOur beloved fatherAn honest and righteous manReb Moshe Yitzhakson 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.
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.
Labels: Jewish Cemeteries, Massachusetts, Woburn
posted by Steve Rosenbach at 7:06 PM
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Steve, mini-headstone portraits have been very popular here on the West Coast for Asian/Chinese people.
--WT
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