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Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (1789–1866), the third rebbe of Chabad Hasidism, was a preeminent religious figure of nineteenth-century East European Jewry. The portrait is an early example of Boris…
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Boris Schatz
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1888
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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
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1620/21
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The identity of the sitter for Portrait of Court Jew with Ring is unknown. It is possible that the man in the picture is Jost Liebmann (also known as Juda Berlin), a Court Jew and jeweler in Berlin…
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Anton Schoonjans
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Berlin, Holy Roman Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1702
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Jacob Ries (1660–1751) of Prague first worked as a badchan (jester) for weddings. In 1710, he became court jester in Vienna under Charles VI. The artist of this portrait of Ries is not known. It…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1710
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Born in Halberstadt, northern Germany, Alexander David (1687–1765) served as Court Jew to Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, providing the ducal court with luxury items as well as banking…
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Artist Unknown
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Braunschweig, Holy Roman Empire (Braunschweig, Germany)
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ca. 1750
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Rembrandt lived in the part of Amsterdam where the artist’s guild (St. Luke’s Guild) was located; by coincidence, it was home also to a number of Jews. His artworks attest to an interest in the…
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1645–1647
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Don Francisco (Abraham Israel) Lopes Suasso (ca. 1657–1710), a prominent financier of Portuguese Jewish heritage, had ten children with his second wife, Leonora (Rachel) da Costa (1669–1749). In these…
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1709
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In the 1730s, the German Jewish Franks-Levy family commissioned an artist to create portraits of three generations of the family. These paintings are all attributed to Gerardus Duykinck, a member of a…
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Gerardus Duyckinck I
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New York City, British America and the British West Indies (New York, United States of America)
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ca. 1735
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Nathan of Gaza (also known as Nathan Benjamin ben Elisha Ḥayim ha-Levi Ashkenazi) was born in Jerusalem and moved to Gaza in around 1663. The son of a respected religious scholar, he became a scholar…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1669
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This engraving portrays Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, a rabbi, kabbalist, and preacher, born in Castro Daire, Portugal, to a family of New Christians. He arrived in Amsterdam with his family at the age of…
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Aernout Naghtegaal
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1683