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Contributor:
Joseph ben Ḥayim de Vitali
Places:
(Aitoloakarnania, Greece)
Date:
1528
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Near sunset one shall light a Shabbat candle and before saying the blessing it is necessary to say “I am not receiving Shabbat” even if one already lit it, until it is Shabbat.
And then…
Contributor:
Meir Benveniste
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1565
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The Harrison Miscellany is an early eighteenth-century codex of sixty leaves featuring delicate gouache illustrations and Hebrew texts. Each illustration (likely executed by a Venetian, non-Jewish…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Corfu, Republic of Venice
(Corfu, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1720
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This is a prayer book for women in Ladino for the whole year, with its order of blessings at the end. And the order for washing the hands and many other laws applicable to all of the most common…
Contributor:
Meir Benveniste
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1565
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A nighttime song of praise I have
To sing before my Lord,
And in the day His help is at my side.
All my life, my soul has longed
To see the courts
Of God, to read the Torah.
And so I come betimes…
Contributor:
Isaac Samuel Modeano
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
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This shadai’a (dedicatory plaque) from the Romaniote community in Ioannina, Greece, is made of repoussé silver with an engraved Hebrew inscription. The central inscription is a rhymed text dedicated…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Ioannina, Ottoman Empire
(Ioannina, Greece)
Date:
1728
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For Yom Kippur, with the help of God, may He be praised.
Another supplication [teḥinah]. I have founded it as the former ones, have established it, and upheld it.
I the young one, Meir, son of our…
Contributor:
Meir de Boton
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1565