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This dedication page made by Meshulam Zimmel for Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (1711–1740) and his wife, Elizabeth Christina (1691–1750), whose portraits appear on the page, presents three versions of…
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Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna
Date:
1733
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This map, in a manuscript copy of Be’er mayim ḥayim (A Spring of Living Water), a commentary on Rashi published in Worms or Friedberg in the late fifteenth or sixteenth century, is based on Rashi’s…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Friedburg (Friedberg, Germany)
Date:
Late 15th or 16th Century
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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…
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Phineas Halevi
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Halberstadt, Holy Roman Empire (Halbe Metze, Germany)
Date:
1716
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During the seventeenth century, Shalem Shabazi, one of the most prominent rabbis of Yemen, wrote deeply spiritual, kabbalistic poetry that couched his subject— the love of God—in the erotic language…
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Shalem Shabazi
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Taiz, Yemeni Zaidi State (Taiz, Yemen)
Date:
Before 1646
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This very early Torah ark curtain from Pesaro was embroidered by Rachel Olivetti and donated to the synagogue in honor of her marriage to Judah Montefiore. The Hebrew text is a poem celebrating and…
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Rachel Olivetti of Pesaro
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Pesaro, Duchy of Urbino (Pesaro, Italy)
Date:
1620
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The Harrison Miscellany is an early eighteenth-century codex of sixty leaves featuring delicate gouache illustrations and Hebrew texts. Each illustration (likely executed by a Venetian, non-Jewish…
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Artist Unknown
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Corfu, Republic of Venice (Corfu, Greece)
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ca. 1720
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View of “The Liberation of G-d,” part of an installation titled Trilogy and Epilogue, in which Helène Aylon highlights misogynist passages in the Hebrew Bible and other canonical Jewish religious…
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Helène Aylon
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1996
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Die Erschaffung des Menschen (The Creation of Man) is an illustration by Ephraim Moses Lilien for the 1902 German translation of the Yiddish poems of Morris Rosenfeld, Lieder des Ghetto (Songs of the…
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Ephraim Moses Lilien
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Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1902
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This erotic illustration by Joseph Chaikov was made for a lavish edition of the biblical Song of Songs published by the Yiddish Kultur-lige in Kiev in 1918–1919. The forms of the embracing couple here…
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Joseph (Iosif) Chaikov
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918–1919
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An illustration by El Lissitzky from Chaim Nahman Bialik’s Shloyme ha-melekh (King Solomon), from an issue of the Hebrew journal Shtilim (Saplings) that was printed in 1917 in Moscow, two days before…
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El Lissitzky
Date:
1917