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Silver signet ring with image of galloping griffin, a hybrid creature that consists of feline body and legs, avian head and wings, and serpentine tail. Found in a burial cave in the Ketef Hinnom…
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Ketef Hinnom, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE
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A month after the birth of future Emperor Joseph II (March 13, 1741), the Jews of Prague held a festive procession in honor of the happy event. The procession, which was planned and led by the…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czechia)
Date:
1741
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This depiction of a Jewish merchant is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have also done his own illustrations. Considered at the time a key source of…
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Nicolas de Nicolay
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1585
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The Jewish couple in Frankfurt am Main depicted here are wearing distinctive clothing that would have clearly identified them as Jews: the man’s collar, hat, and cloak, and the woman’s ruff and winged…
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Caspar Luyken
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1703
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This woodcut depicts Jewish women and girls lighting candles to mark the beginning of the Sabbath or a holiday. The illustration appears in a Yiddish translation by Shim’on Levi Gintsburg, printed in…
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Isaac Tyrnau, Shim’on Levi Gintsburg
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1600
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This watercolor from the Gennadius Library’s Costume Album collection, in Athens, depicts two Jewish women—a widow (left) and a married woman (right)—in the colorful traditional attire of…
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Artist Unknown
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1574
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Dialoghi di m. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo, sopra l’utile sue inventioni circa la seta (Dialogues of Magino Gabrielli, Hebrew, On the Utility of His Inventions in Silk Production), printed in Rome, is a…
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Meir Magino
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1560
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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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Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1572
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This is one of three known portraits of Jacob Judah Leon Templo, who was famous for his elaborate wooden model of the Temple of Solomon, which he turned into a traveling exhibition and showed and…
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Shalom Italia
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640–1649
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This engraving depicting a Jewish woman in Cairo, Egypt, is from Cornelis de Bruyn’s travelogue, Reizen van Corn de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus…
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Cornelis de Bruyn
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1714