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I’ve recently seen a few tombstones in Jewish cemeteries that have the photographs of the deceased on the tombstone. Does anyone allow that?
And if the answer is no what are you going to do about it?
It’s a Russian thing
Photos on headstones are popular with Russian people – of all faiths, including Judaism.
No one had a photograph on a tombstone until less than 200 years ago. Goyim often had carved images on tombs but that’s very expensive (i.e. something for royalty) – Jews don’t hold by graven images.
A photograph on a tombstone will fade fairly quickly, and most people won’t tombstones to be fairly permanent. To make it permanent you need to convert it to an engraving which is very expensive and halachially questionable.
Akuperma, apparently you haven’t seen what the OP is talking about. It’s some kind of engraving process. Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn has several that are visible from the street.
Go to Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens and you will see this…….on tombstones from the 1920’s and 1930’s.
I Googled these cemeteries but couldn’t find pictures of photographs on tombstones.
lb: I have been there many times and have seen tombstones with photographs. What did you google?
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