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Silver amulet typical of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian Jewish homes. This example from Venice is unusual in that it contains an unidentified family coat of arms whose main feature is a…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1750
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Kabbalist Elijah Menaḥem ben Abba Mari Ḥalfan constructed this diagram, now stained and torn, with the assistance of his tutor Abraham Sarfati. It depicts the sefirotic system and includes Ḥalfan’s…
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Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1533
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These depictions of Jewish women from Adrianople (present day Edirne, Turkey) is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have done his own illustrations. Considered…
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Nicolas de Nicolay
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1585
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The book of Esther (also known as the Scroll [megillah] of Esther) is read out loud on the holiday of Purim. This example of a scroll from Venice has Hebrew text framed by arcades and borders…
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Aryeh Leyb ben Daniel, Francesco Griselini
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1746
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Printing, which Jews adopted immediately after its invention, helped to unify far-flung communities. Where previously Jewish learning had been transmitted through the individual copying of manuscripts…
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Daniel Bomberg
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1522/3–1524
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This rabbinic ordination certificate granted to Judah ben Eliezer Briel was printed as a broadside in Venice and signed by prominent Venetian rabbis. It certifies his learning and his fitness to…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1677
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Jacob Mahler by the University of Padua, Italy. Mahler, born in Bingen-on-Rhine, Germany, studied medicine and philosophy, and in 1695 was awarded a…
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1695
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The second-oldest building in the Venetian ghetto is the Scuola Canton Synagogue. Built several years after the Scuola Grande Tedesca, the Canton Synagogue also served the Ashkenazic community. The…
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1532
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Title page of the first known printed version of the Ku-bukh (Cow Book), a sixteenth-century collection of Yiddish fables, published in Verona, Italy in 1595. The later compendium of Yiddish stories…
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Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
1595
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This ketubah (marriage contract) from Padua, Italy, marks the marriage of Samuel ben Gerson ha-Kohen me-ha-ḥazanim (“of the cantors,” or Cantarini) and Colomba bat David Aziz. The groom was a…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1732