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This prayer book for the Rosh Hashanah festival from Crete is elaborately decorated inside with drawings of animals and people and has a colorful title page. Greek (Romaniote/Byzantine) Jews had lived…
Contributor:
Moses Bili ben Judah
Places:
Candia, Republic of Venice (Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
1614
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This woodcut depicts Jewish women and girls lighting candles to mark the beginning of the Sabbath or a holiday. The illustration appears in a Yiddish translation by Shim’on Levi Gintsburg, printed in…
Contributor:
Isaac Tyrnau, Shim’on Levi Gintsburg
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1600
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- Jews hold the Sabbath, above all other feasts, with the greatest veneration on account of it being named so often in the Scripture and being ordered…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1637
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During the days of Shavuot, quite a number of householders, accompanied by their sons, their wives and their infant children, would rise early each morning and walk outside the city, and outside the…
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The Jewish Community of Corfu
Places:
Corfu, Republic of Venice (Corfu, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1700
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May salvation be near, and we be cleansed of great sin. Amen.
I, the undersigned, have witnessed the bad custom practiced among young men on the days of Purim, that in the synagogue during the…
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Moses Bili ben Judah, The Jewish Community of Crete
Places:
Crete, Republic of Venice (Crete, Greece)
Date:
1545
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The book of Esther (also known as the Scroll [megillah] of Esther) is read out loud on the holiday of Purim. This example of a scroll from Venice has Hebrew text framed by arcades and borders…
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Aryeh Leyb ben Daniel, Francesco Griselini
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1746