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Bidding Information
Lot #    4942
Auction End Date    6/25/2003 1:04:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Drawing of the Gravesite of R. Ephraim Ankawa
Title (Hebrew)    מצבת רבינו אפרים אלנקאוה
City    Tlemcen
Publication Date    c. 1900
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [1] p., 241:355 mm., browned and stained with several tears, laid down on board.
          
Paragraph 1    Apparently the work of a local artist.
          
Detailed
Description
   The tomb of the "Rabh" (R. Ephraim Ankawa) in the Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of Tlemcen is an important place of pilgrimage for Jews and non-Jews. Sometimes more than 10,000 people from many parts of the world convened there on Lag ba-Omer.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Morocco
  
Subject
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica
  
Posters:    Checked