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wife of Menahem Levi Meshullami Simḥah
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1680/1
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1729
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This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…
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Artist Unknown
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Early 16th Century
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Contributor:
Andrea Marelli
Places:
Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
1573
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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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Artist Unknown
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
1627
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This intricately decorated ketubah (marriage contract) marks the marriage of Gabriel ben Hezekiah Amron to Simḥa bat Shabbetai mi-Segni. It is richly decorated with biblical miniatures, including one…
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Artist Unknown
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
1734
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The Scuola Levantina (Levantine Synagogue), a Sephardic synagogue built in 1541, was restored in the late seventeenth century. The bimah is thought to have been carved by Andrea Brustolon (1662–1732)…
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1541
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Pastorino di Giovan Michele de’ Pastorini
Places:
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1557/8
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In the days of Antigonus, in about 3160 of creation, roughly 52 of the second rule of Ptolemy II over…
Contributor:
Gedaliah Ibn Yaḥya
Places:
Alessandria, Duchy of Milan
(Alessandria, Italy)
Date:
1587