This Very Stone Shall Be a Witness: The Jewish Cemetery in Wielkie Oczy

This book is an expansion of the author's previous work, privately published in the Polish language. This Stone Shall Be a Witness: The Jewish Cemetery in Wielkie Oczy is a descriptive and historical analysis of the art, iconography and inscriptions of gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Wielkie Oczy a small village in southeastern Poland. It is a stunning and groundbreaking work by Andrzej Trzcinski, professor emeritus of Maria curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, a world authority and Poland's best known, most distinguished expert on the topic of traditional Jewish art, especially cemetery, sepulchral art in the Ashkenazi tradition. This publication will be of significant importance to people from around the world who are interested in the local monuments of material culture and enthusiats of Wielkie Oczy's past. It is also a resource for Jewish genealogists for whom it will be an important source of knowledge about the past of their families. Lastly, an important task of this work is its potential impact on standards of documenting Jewish cemeteries in Poland.

Author: Andrzej Trzciński
Publisher: Wielkie Oczy Foundation Publishing
Published: 04/30/2019
Pages: 372
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780989443234

About the Author
Trzciński, Andrzej: - Andrzej Trzciński, professor emeritus of Maria-Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin (Poland), is a historian and art historian who specializes in the field of material and artistic culture of the Ashkenazi Jews. He researches Jewish antiquities in the area of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in their historical context, iconography and iconology of images on gravestones, the equipment and interior decor of synagogues as well as Hebrew epigraphy and paleography.

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