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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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They that went before were affrighted (Job 18:20); [they took] a path that many have trod, princes most honorable (Numbers 22:15); the customs of our fathers are in our hands [b. Shabbat 35b], and it…
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The Jewish Youth Confraternity of Asti
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Asti, Kingdom of Sardinia
(Asti, Italy)
Date:
1619
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Lelio Della Torre
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Padua, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
(Padova, Italy)
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1829
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Ioannes Aloysius Foppa de Rota
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1692
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To satisfy your doubt concerning my signature, I have to tell you, in all philosophical frankness, that I was born with a burning desire and the greatest curiosity to know, more as a way to get to…
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Joseph Attias
Places:
Livorno, Kingdom of Italy
(Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1733
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The following are the statutes, laws, and regulations which, with God’s help, are ultimately to be established in the institution dedicated to Torah [ . . . ] and to the sciences which our master, the…
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Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor, David Provenzalo
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1564
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The words of a pure woman “more precious than rubies”
whose wish is to attend to studies,
and her name is the gentle Dinah:
She seeks counsel from the wise
for she fears lest her honor may everywhere…
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Samuel Archevolti
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1553
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These lessons (of which the first forty-seven paragraphs were already published in the Rivista israelitica) were written in 1832 for the use of those youth who, upon completing their primary and…
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Samuel David Luzzatto
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Padua, Kingdom of Italy
(Padova, Italy)
Date:
1832
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In my opinion, there is no person in this world, whether he is a sage or a…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1612