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The women’s prayer section depicted in this painting gives a rare glimpse into the ways that women have asserted their agency and voices even in gender-segregated spaces.
Contributor:
Maurycy Gottlieb
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1878
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Although he himself would not recite “for the sake of the unification,” in keeping with the ruling of the Gaon—the Noda bi-Yehudah [R. Ezekiel Landau]—he was occasionally jealous of those who say it.…
Contributor:
Simon Sofer
Places:
Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1870
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Contributor:
Karl Goldmark
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1875
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Despite gender restrictions, Jewish women played central roles as religious leaders in the early modern period. Meet the female leader of one of the most controversial cults in Jewish history.
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ca. 1771
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Contributor:
Tina Blau
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1875–1876
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This paper cut, commemorating the anniversary of a date of death, originates from Galicia.
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
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(Galicia, Ukraine)
Date:
1867–1880
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I did not sleep; I let myself be rocked by the inexorable battle of the waves; soon the monster of seasickness flashed in my innards, but I overcame it. A god held sway in me; he triumphed: it was the…
Contributor:
Ignác Goldziher
Places:
Buda, Pest, Óbuda, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1873
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It cannot be doubted that the two designations ahl al-ḥadīth and ahl al-ra’y originally referred to branches of legists occupied with the investigation of Islamic law: the former were…
Contributor:
David Tevele
Places:
Buda, Pest, Óbuda, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Leipzig, Holy Roman Emprie
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1883
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In the first place, it behoves us to fight the opinion that the regeneration of the service can be achieved only by a complete break with the past, by abolishing all traditional and inherited…
Contributor:
Salomon Sulzer
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1876