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Pieter van Hoven
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17th or 18th Century
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This ritual spice container is thought to have been made in Frankfurt am Main. It is decorated to represent a four-story tower with brick walls. At its top, two short spires flank a central, taller…
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Artist Unknown
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Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1550
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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This enameled glass beaker, belonging to the Polin Burial Society in Bohemia, is a fine example of the melding of Jewish and Bohemian art forms. It features painted figures carrying a body toward a…
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Artist Unknown
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Poleň (Polin), Holy Roman Empire
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1691
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The kapporet is a short curtain, a valance, hung over the curtain of the Torah ark, and first began to appear in Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. The griffins and crowns that appear on…
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Artist Unknown
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Zawichost, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Zawichost, Poland)
Date:
1700
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Contributor:
Joachim Michael Salecker
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1723
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Elkana Schatz Naumberg
Places:
Kriegshaber, Holy Roman Empire
(Kriegshaber, Germany)
Date:
1724
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This shadai’a (dedicatory plaque) from the Romaniote community in Ioannina, Greece, is made of repoussé silver with an engraved Hebrew inscription. The central inscription is a rhymed text dedicated…
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Artist Unknown
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Ioannina, Ottoman Empire
(Ioannina, Greece)
Date:
1728
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1600
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Menasseh ben Joseph ben Israel, seeing the Bomberg types worn out, and since nothing can be imperfect for the Holy Work, arose from within the community and went out, and came to the house of an…
Contributor:
Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1627