Grigorescu, Felicia: Forme de artă în cimitire evreieşti din nord-vestul Romaniei (Satu Mare, 2013)
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them. h./ To examine the sick, to cheer them up by talking to them and to comfort c. / To bury the dead according to the rite and the way used by the cemetery, the property of the union. d. / To be of help for the moribund in their last moments. e. / To help the mourning people who have no fortune in the first week of mourning, in order to avoid all work as it is assigned in confession. Hevra Kadisa functions according to charter approved by Ministry of Hungarian Internal Affairs with regulation no. 20532/VII from 12 April, 1886... CO The brotherhood functioned' according to a bylaw and used a register of deceased people. In bigger communities, this bylaw is assigned in a special book (register) of the Hevra Kadisa'57 58 S9, which has been richly illustrated, with scenes from the complex activity of the society. In the manuscript of the brotherhood from Buda, illustrated in 1800, there are represented the following scenes: the disease, setting the deceased on foot, agony, setting on the ground, death watch, ritual wash of the dead, to ask for forgiveness from the dead, approaching the grave and putting the dead in the grave60. In the mid XVIII century Hungary started to print special sheets for these registries. Some of these, the ones appeared in Miskolc, had specific scenes represented: the visit of the doctor, the joy of celebrating the Torah, the visit of the cemetery on the first day of the month elul, the first common meal of the brotherhood after the funeral, conveying of the dead to the cemetery by the hearse pulled by horses. One can notice the tendency of the communities to customize the themes represented in the funeral chapel related to tasks for Hevra Kadisa, in the manuscripts or on the printed sheets of the book of deceased. The manuscripts with the statute and registry of the dead, were associated with other books referring to death, which had appeared from time to time at different civilisations, such as Egypt, during the XXI dynasty, The Book of the Dead61 *. The societies Hevra Kadisha had collection of books necessary to the underlying of both ritual and religious assistance There were discovered copies of the Hevra Kadisha in the Jewish books collection from the big Synagogue from Satu Mare, on the occasion of a research. The treatise The First Gate from the Babylonian Talmud printed in Prague in 1843, presents the following ex-libris in Hebrew: Hevra Kadisha of the orthodox community from Satu Mare, and on the treatise Shabat from the Babylonian Talmud printed in Debrecen, it has been identified the seal written in Hebrew Hevra Kadisha Satmar and the written notes in Hebrew: it belongs to Hevra Kadisha. 57 Corneliu Crăciun, Contribuţii documentare la istoria evreilor din Bihor, Ed. Arca, Oradea, 2009, p. 61 58 ’ Dicţionar de civilizaţie iudaică, Larousse, Ed. Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1997. pag. 328 ; Schöner Alfred, A pokol..., p. 11. Se atribuie întâietatea şi paternitatea înfiinţării primei Hevra Kadisha în Europa Centrală lui Eliezer Askenăzi din Praga, în 1564. 59 Schöner Alfréd, A pokol..., p. 10. Is a work which describes the manuscript Hevra Kadişa from Nagykanizsa, which started to be written in 1792, up to the first decade of the 20th century. There is another such work at Eger illustrated by Curiei ben Jehiél Mihl (Miskolc). 6(1 Ibidem, p. 11 61 Ibidem ('2 Maria Radosav, Livada ..., p. 171 104
