To whom do the dead belong? The Jewish cemetery at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon, France
This article describes the powerplay around the recent discovery (summer 2015) of eighteenth-century Jewish graves in the French city of Lyon. Prior to the French Revolution, Jews had no right to have their own cemeteries, and the corpses of the deceased were buried in the basement of the local cath...
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Manchester University Press
2017-04-01
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| Series: | Human Remains and Violence |
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