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Jacques-Émile-Édouard Brandon
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Paris, Second French Empire
(Paris, France)
Date:
1867
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Solomon Alexander Hart
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1850
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I certainly had an obscure childhood
but intensely my own,
a childhood which wanted to be dashing
but had the features of a caricature.
Yes, a caricature. For example:
that absurd love for Sophie,…
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César Tiempo
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1933
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Samuel Naumbourg
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1847
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Their custom on the night of Purim was for each individual to pray in his own private domain and home, and…
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Aryeh Leyb ben Daniel, Francesco Griselini, Ḥayim Abulafia
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1736
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Question: A woman pledged, when she lay ill, to give her disukia, which is embroidered with gilt silver thread, to be made into a ceremonial object for the synagogue. The disukia is what is called in…
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Yair Ḥayim Bacharach
Places:
Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
Date:
1699
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Mah Tovu notes our coming into the house of God, symbolized by the words “tents” and “tabernacles.” Mah Tovu begins with a passage from the Torah (Num. 24), in which the pagan prophet Balaam blesses…
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Lori Justice-Shocket
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
2004
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Vilna, my great matriarch, an established Jewish city,
Jerusalem of the Exile, an ancient nation’s consolation in the north!
This [poem] is your patched kerchief, like the roof of the old synagogue,…
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Zalman Shneour
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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Bernard Picart
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1725
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Artist Unknown
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New York City, Kingdom of Great Britain
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1730