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Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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Contributor:
Nachman ha-Kohen Bialsker
Places:
Bielsk, Russian Empire
(Bielsk Podlaski, Poland)
Date:
1862
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Ornate silver amulet. The Hebrew word Shaddai—another name for God—is etched in the center. Italy, ca. 1750.
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Artist Unknown
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Date:
ca. 1750
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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
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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