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In this table, giving the notation for chanting the Torah, the musical notes indicate the melody of each cantillation mark, while the Hebrew words below them indicate the name and shape of the mark.
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ca. 1611
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This caricature by the Henschel brothers celebrates the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in December 1813. This battle, the final in Napoleon’s “German Campaign,” is also known as the…
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Gebrüder Henschel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1813
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This glimpse into an eighteenth-century German Jewish marriage ceremony offers an opportunity to consider how gender roles have changed for this vital ritual.
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Artist Unknown
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Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
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1748
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This Sabbath lamp, cast in silver in Frankfurt am Main, was originally commissioned for a private home. It was made by Johann Valentin Schüler, a craftsman who also produced many other Jewish ritual…
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Johann Valentin Schüler
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1680–1720
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The master silversmith Rötger Herfurth was particularly well known for his Hanukkah lamps, most of which have backplates and rampant lions, a style he popularized and which came to be known as the…
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Rötger Herfurth
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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ca. 1769–1776
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Although few examples of the work of embroiderer Jacob Koppel Gans remain, he is best known for this Torah ark curtain and valance, dating to 1772 or 1773, made of velvet and embroidered with metallic…
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Jacob Koppel Gans
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Holy Roman Empire (Bavaria, Germany)
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1772–1773
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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Carl Alexander. Economic reforms enacted by Carl Alexander (and informed by Oppenheimer…
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Artist Unknown
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Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)
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1738
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Born in Eisenstadt (in Burgenland) and educated in Mattersdorf and Breslau, Akiva Eger (1761-1837) was a prominent rabbinic and halakhic leader. After living in Lissa, Prussia, he served as rabbi in…
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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Early 19th Century
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Theresa Concordia Mengs painted this self-portrait with pastels, her preferred medium, when she was about twenty years old, a few years after her family moved from Dresden to Rome.
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Theresa Concordia Mengs
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Dresden, Holy Roman Empire (Dresden, Germany)
Date:
1745
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One of Charlotte von Rothschild’s most outstanding works is the only known nineteenth-century Hebrew manuscript to have been illuminated by a woman.
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Charlotte von Rothschild
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Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1842