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My parents are buried in Braila, in the Jewish cemetery. I believe that there was still a rabbi in Braila when my father died.
The grief was so great in those days that I’m not really sure of this. The religious ceremony was as it is nowadays, meaning that our rituals are much shorter and less pompous, which is to say that the priest [the rabbi] puts on less of an act. Actors and priests are alike in nature, in my opinion. I even had a photograph once taken on the occasion of the blessing of my father’s tombstone. We observe the Yahrzeit, meaning the ‘Commemoration of the dead.
The grief was so great in those days that I’m not really sure of this. The religious ceremony was as it is nowadays, meaning that our rituals are much shorter and less pompous, which is to say that the priest [the rabbi] puts on less of an act. Actors and priests are alike in nature, in my opinion. I even had a photograph once taken on the occasion of the blessing of my father’s tombstone. We observe the Yahrzeit, meaning the ‘Commemoration of the dead.
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Braila
Romania
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Eveline Ciocoiu