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Late Bronze Age, 16th–13th Century BCE
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This detail appears on the right side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud. The two Bes figures on the lower left are unrelated to the lyre player in the upper right. Bes was a minor…
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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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This seal, found at the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem, shows a uraeus or upright cobra with four wings. Modeled on the black-necked cobra that applies its venom both by biting and spitting, it was…
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB–IIC, Late 8th–7th Century BCE
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Smotrych, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Smotrych, Ukraine)
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1744
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This late seventeenth-century manuscript contains a full copy of the text of the Ardashir-nāmah (The Book of Ardashir/Ahasuerus), an epic poem by the fourteenth-century Jewish Persian writer Shāhin-i…
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ca. 1680
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[Text:] § 22 The Midrash says: “For the sake of four things were our…
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Ephraim Solomon Luntshitz
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1590
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The Harrison Miscellany is an early eighteenth-century codex of sixty leaves featuring delicate gouache illustrations and Hebrew texts. Each illustration (likely executed by a Venetian, non-Jewish…
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Artist Unknown
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Corfu, Republic of Venice (Corfu, Greece)
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ca. 1720
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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Early 18th Century
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[ . . . ] reb azrielke:
God’s world is great and holy. The holiest land in the world is the Land of Israel. In the Land of Israel the holiest city is Jerusalem. In Jerusalem the holiest place was the…
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Sh. An-ski
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1920
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The rain cleaned off the steep facade of houses;
I write upon the white and stony sheet
And feel how my tired hand so softly rouses
From love poems that always, sweetly, were a cheat.
I wake in the…
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Else Lasker-Schüler
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1932