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Contributor:
Bernard Picart
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1722
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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This silver circumcision set was crafted in Salonika in the Ottoman Empire. The cylindrical silver casket holds a circumcision knife; its handle is made from agate. A similarly shaped powder box and…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
18th Century
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Contributor:
Romeyn de Hooghe
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1665–8
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Circumcision has so peculiar a veneration among the present Jews, that if all other parts of their Religion were to be changed, this like Mount…
Contributor:
Lancelot Addison
Places:
Milston, Kingdom of England
(Milston, United Kingdom)
Date:
1675
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He will surely come with songs of joy, carrying the child, in the full assembly. My friends, wait here for the bridegroom of blood.
He should be coming down the road. Why is the child so late? You…
Contributor:
Joseph Bibas
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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Printed amulet for infant boy. This amulet has a companion, for a female child; however, the pair were separated. The text in the center of the amulet is surrounded by a Baroque design with decorative…
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1750
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The train pulls up to the platform, steaming and boiling like a samovar.
Lazar is standing on the platform—short, glowing, joyful—waving his dirty handkerchief at the cars.
The train is on its way to…
Contributor:
David Khait
Date:
1928