Showing Results 31 - 40 of 40
Restricted
Text
Across from me in the subway sat the madonna
Crossing her legs,
Bending over a tabloid.
She read about a cashier-girl who jumped into the water
When her bridegroom left her with a rising belly.
The…
Contributor:
A. Leyeles
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1937
Categories:
Restricted
Text
There is much I cannot tell you. I am not going to be autobiographical. I want to be “bio.”
I write with the flow of the words.
Before the appearance of the mirror, the person didn’t know his own face…
Contributor:
Clarice Lispector
Places:
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date:
1973
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
[The lessons a mother should give her son]: My son, you should know that before your body looked the way it does now, it was nothing. You were formed in my belly from the drops of fertility that came…
Contributor:
David Attias
Places:
Livorno, Holy Roman Empire
(Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1778
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Eighteenth-century German amulet printed with unique designs. The use of the names of the three angels, Sanoi, Sansanoi, and Smangalaf, indicates the use of this amulet as a birth protection for…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Date:
ca. 1750
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
This Torah binder, made for boys at birth and later brought by young men as a symbol of participation in the synagogue, illustrates the fixed nature of traditional gender expectations.
Contributor:
Koppel ben Moses Heller
Places:
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
(Munich, Germany)
Date:
1814
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Abraham Bar Jacob
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1700
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
They heard the sound of the Lord God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of day; and the man and his wife hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. The Lord God called out to…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Westheim, Holy Roman Empire
(Westheim, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Silver amulet typical of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian Jewish homes. This example is unusual in that it contains an unidentified family coat of arms whose main feature is a rampant lion…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1750
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Printed birth amulet. The decorative borders are composed of printers’ devices and decorations that were used by printers in Fürth (Bavaria), so it is assumed that this amulet was printed in that city…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Fürth, Holy Roman Empire
(Fürth, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750