History and Anthropology in Jewish Studies

An Online Exhibition from the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies 2003-2004 Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania

A Jewish Shrine at the Cemetery of Mainz?

Tombstone of poet R. Shim'on ben Yitzhak
Photograph: Menorah 5 (1927): 703.

Sketch of inscription, reading: זה קבר רבנא ר׳ שמעון בר יצחק נשמתו לחיי עד
"This is the grave of rabbana R. Shim'on bar Yitzhak. May his soul have eternal life."
(Siegmund Salfeld, ''Mainzer jüdische Grabsteine, gefunden im Jahre 1922'', Mainzer Zeitschrift 17/19 (1921/24): 63)

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