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This was the first printed map of the land of Israel in Hebrew. It was based on an earlier map by a Christian, Kruik van Adrichem, but Jacob Tsaddik removed the illustrations of the life of Jesus that…
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Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1621
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The frontispiece of this book of penitential prayers published in Amsterdam, Tikun li-kro’ laylah va-yom (A Tikkun to Read Day and Night) has a three-tiered illustration. The top level depicts Moses…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1666
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This phantasmagoric portrait of poet and playwright Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios and his family is from Imperio de Dios en la harmonia del mundo(God’s Empire in the Harmony of the World), a…
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Aron de Chavez
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1689
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The Book of Esther (also known as the Scroll [megillah] of Esther) is read out loud on the holiday of Purim. This example of an illustrated scroll from the Netherlands (shown here with a page of…
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Abraham de Chaves
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1687
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This is a technical diagram from Joseph Delmedigo’s Sefer Elim (Book of Elim), a scientific and philosophical work published by Menasseh Ben Israel.
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Menasseh Ben Israel, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1629
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These three pages come from a catalogue of books listed for sale by Samuel ben Israel Soeiro, a bookseller in Amsterdam. It lists first the Hebrew books and then the ones in Spanish. He printed the…
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Samuel ben Israel Soeiro, Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1652
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This decorated psalter was made for Aaron de Joseph de Pinto, a member of the prominent Portuguese Jewish family in Amsterdam. It is a manuscript, copied from a print edition done by David de Castro…
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Meir Cohen Belinfante, Isaac Siprut
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1728
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This ketubah was written and illustrated for the wedding of Isaac Pereira and Rachel de Pinto, members of prominent Sephardic families. At the top a pair of hands clasp, and vignettes along the sides…
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Shalom Italia
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1648
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When Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik created the first printed map of the Holy Land in Hebrew, he included this portrait of himself. The Hebrew under the image of the sun intertwined with a Star of David…
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Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1620/21
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Adorned with a lush vegetative frame and putti (cherubs) carrying banners, this ketubah (marriage contract) marks the wedding of David and Dona Rachel Curiel, prominent members of Amsterdam’s…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1617