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Show Jewish Funerals. Wolfensteln. in his "Idyls of the Gass," tells of the peculiar tenderness of n Jewish burial soclct). When a death occuis there, ho sa)s, whether In tho house of the rich or the poor, the Eoclet bends two locked boxes to the bereaved One contains tho funds of the society, the other Is empty. Tile fund Is then transferred from one box to the other, and In tho process one mny ndd to It, or tako from It, or leave It Intact. Tho boxes are then returned locked, and no ono knows or can know who has made a donation or who has a charity funeral. |