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This is the frontispiece of a 1661 edition of Synagoga Judaica, a study of the customs and culture of German Jewry by Christian Hebraist, and polemical critic of Judaism, Johannes Buxtorf the Elder…
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Johannes Buxtorf
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Basel, Swiss Confederacy (Basel, Switzerland)
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1661
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Cornell Capa took this picture of boys learning Torah or the Hebrew alphabet at a time when Hasidic survivors of the Holocaust were just beginning to rebuild their communities. Brooklyn, New York was…
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Cornell Capa
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Brooklyn, United States of America
Date:
1955
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Iehudah Machabeu (calligrapher), Exemplar Leaf. La Rochelle, France, 1655. It shows samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian…
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Iehudah Machabeu
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1655
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A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue was the first Hebrew-language manual printed in North America. Its author Judah Monis, knowing that all undergraduates at Harvard University were required to learn…
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Judah Monis
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Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies (Cambridge, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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Front page of the first issue of Moledet (Homeland), a Hebrew monthly for youth created by Simḥah Ben-Tsiyon and published by the Hebrew Teacher’s Union in Palestine from 1911 to 1946. The goal of the…
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Simḥa Ben-Tsiyon
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1911
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Title page of the second edition of a six-language (Hebrew-Aramaic, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish) dictionary published in Jerusalem in 1908.
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Solomon Pinḥasoff
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1908
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PrefaceSince through the good Hand of GOD upon me, he has not only taken Moses’s Vail from me, but even has Placed me in his Service, i.e. to Teach and Promote the Knowledge of the Hebrew Tongue at…
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Judah Monis
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Boston, Kingdom of Great Britain (Boston, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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Cover page of G. Bocz’s Yiddish-language biology textbook, Geviksn: Baarbet Avrom Golomb (Plants: Reworked by Avrom Golomb).
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Avrom Golomb
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1919