НАДГРОБНЫЕ НАДПИСИ НА ДРЕВНЕЕВРЕЙСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ ИЗ РЕГИОНA РАЙСН (БЕЛАРУСЬ И УКРАИНА)
Journal: Proceedings in Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Black Sea Region
Year: 2022

Hebrew gravestone inscriptions from Jewish cemeteries from the region called Raysn (mostly in current Belarus and partially in Ukraine) are studied as a historical source and a literature genre. The epitaphs express the idea of a connection between the ideal world of Scripture and religious Hebrew books and the world of everyday life of a shtetl or community. This can be traced at several levels. First, at the level of inscriptions’ structure, the epitaph includes an indication of the place (“he