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This graphic depiction of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Tale of a Goat”) juxtaposes the collective memory of the exodus from Egypt with Soviet revolutionary art and politics.
Contributor:
El Lissitzky
Places:
Vitebsk, Russian SFSR
(Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1919
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This scroll of Esther from Germany, created for use on the holiday of Purim, is extensively decorated, with illustrations of biblical scenes from the Esther story, as well as various flora and fauna…
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1630
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.
Contributor:
Menachem Birnbaum
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1920
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This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…
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Artist Unknown
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1552
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Artist Unknown
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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Early 18th Century
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Contributor:
Caspar Birckenholtz
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1661–1690
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Contributor:
Johann Adam Boller
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1706–1732