Hebrew Epitaphs From Eastern Europe: At the Intersection of Bookish and Popular Culture

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Hebrew gravestone inscriptions from western Ukraine, from the 16th to the 20th centuries, serve as an important source for Jewish history, literature, and anthropology. Hebrew epitaphs as a genre stand at the intersection of Hebrew/written/official culture and Yiddish/oral/everyday/popular. Prof. Michael […]