Ketubah

Print of man holding up tablets on mountain before crowd of people on top of page, people around long table in the middle of the page, Hebrew title in center, and people sitting around round table on the bottom of page.

Tikun li-kro’ laylah va-yom (A Tikkun to Read Day and Night)

The frontispiece of this book of penitential prayers published in Amsterdam, Tikun li-kro’ laylah va-yom (A Tikkun to Read Day and Night) has a three-tiered illustration. The top level depicts Moses…

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Page of Aramaic text framed by drawing of four columns and gateway with two cornucopias on top, decorated with flowers and vines throughout.

Ketubah (Rome)

This rare example of a Roman ketubah (marriage contract) from the seventeenth century was written on the occasion of the marriage of Menahem ben Samuel Zadik to Zevia, daughter of the prominent banker…

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Painting of girl standing in front of slanted table with scrap of black bread.

Aniska

Shterenberg is famous for a series of paintings he did in 1917 and 1918, which are sometimes known as “hungry still lives.” A single object, such as a herring or a loaf of bread, is the focus of the…

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