Showing Results 1 - 9 of 9
Public Access
Image
Places:
Willemstad, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Willemstad, Curaçao)
Date:
1732
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Samuel Naumbourg
Places:
Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1847
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
(Kerala, India)
Date:
1721
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in…
Contributor:
Menaḥem Man Amelander
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1743
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Jews first settled in Kaifeng, the capital of Henan province in central China, before 1127. According to scholars, they had come from India or Persia, spoke Persian, and worked as cotton dyers and…
Places:
Kaifeng, Qing Dynasty
(Kaifeng, China)
Date:
1722
Subjects:
Restricted
Text
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,…
Contributor:
Zalman Shneour
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Nathan, the shoemaker from Porisov, a small Jewish village in Poland, came home one evening shortly before his departure for Colombia with a Torah scroll under his arm. With a slight shiver, he lay…
Contributor:
Salomón Brainsky
Places:
Date:
1955
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1847
Categories:
Restricted
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Kaifeng, Qing Dynasty
(Kaifeng, China)
Date:
1643–1663