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As for myself, I was constantly going back in my studies as well as in manners and conduct. After a while, my father decided to send me to Prague, which was a day’s journey. My older brother was also…
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Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1685
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In 1705, the Nuremberg artist, Johannes Alexander Böner, published a slim volume about Fürth, Germany, containing several copper-engravings dealing with the life of Jews in the city. This print…
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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)
Date:
1705
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Be it known that there was a man in Stuttgart in the state of Württemberg, who became ever greater in the stubbornness of his heart and his pride, in his wealth and his wisdom, and he was called…
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Salomon Schechter
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1738
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This print depicting a Jewish wedding in Fürth is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400 Jewish families…
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Johannes Alexander Böner
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705
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How good and agreeable is it, when brothers live in one house, and how much more father and son
Peace to my beloved, dear and darling son, whose soul is bound to my soul, the intimate friend, the…
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Eliezer Morawczyk
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Tymbarg, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tymbark, Poland)
Date:
1588
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I will begin by praising God
Who created us all.
I will begin with the Ten Commandments
Which God, Blessed be He,
Gave to us by the hand of Moses.
All of us stood at Mount Sinai,
Each individual…
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Wife of Gershon Sheyndele
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1685
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Since the last saying has made it necessary to speak of things, which pertain to the eternal mysteries, namely the ways of kabbalah, I will not hide from the reader what is at the tip of my…
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Moses Isserles
Places:
Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1570
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“I, too, have authority, the authority of the Lord, blessed be He, of the Shekinah and all the members of the Heavenly Academy.”
[Padua, 16 March 1730]
Oh, thou great Prince, lofty pillar, Gaon R…
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Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1730
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This illustration from a book of prayers for the Jewish Gravediggers Society depicts the cycle of life. Figures of men and women in pairs ascend and descend the staircase, progressing from youth to…
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Artist Unknown
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1740
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According to the colophon, the scribe in Prague who produced the Klausen Book of Psalms, Shabbetai Sheftel ben Zalman Auerbach (d. 1738), was descended from a family expelled from Vienna in 1669/70…
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Shabbetai Sheftel Auerbach
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1706