We have a new JHE video on our YouTube channel!
This one explores the imagery of the Weeping Willow in commemoration and on gravestones.
With its drooping branches symbolizing grief, the Weeping Willow has been a common motif on gravestones — Jewish and non-Jewish alike — particularly from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
In our video, we show examples of the weeping willow as used as a Holocaust memorial and on Jewish gravestones in several Jewisb cemeteries. Some representations are simple; some are very elaborate and examples of sculptural art.
We also focus on a magnificent live willow, shading a Jewish cemetery...
(The video is drawn from a photo essay we posted a year ago.)
(The music is the track "Árie No. 17 Krásný Menuet (Schöne Menuet) / Árie No. 9," from the CD Baroquegrass, by our friends the Malina Brothers. Used with permission.)