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This woodcut is an illustration in Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs), a very popular Yiddish book published by Giovanni di Gara, the leading publisher of Jewish books in Venice from 1564 to 1609. It…
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1600/1
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz
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Paris, Provisional Government of the French Republic (Paris, France)
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1944–1954
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Al Hirschfeld
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1958
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Julius Helfft
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1849
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Aron Bilis
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1917
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669–627 BCE
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On this ceramic double pipe from Tel Malhata, the musician uses one hand on each pipe to control pitch. Usually women played the double pipe, but in this case, it is a man. This double pipe is…
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Tel Malḥata, Land of Israel (Tel Malḥata, Israel)
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Iron Age II, 7th Century BCE
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This detail appears on the right side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud. The seated figure plays a lyre held away from the body. There seem to be four strings, oriented vertically…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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Depicted in a relief from Sennacherib’s Palace in Nineveh, these musicians, followed by an Assyrian soldier, hold stringed instruments against their chests, plucking the strings as they walk. Dressed…
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Nineveh, Land of Israel (Mosul, Iraq)
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Early 7th Century BCE
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Aron de Chavez
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1689