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This decorated manuscript of the prayers for a circumcision ceremony was owned by one Joseph ben Samuel. On its title page (not shown) is an unidentified coat of arms decorated with the Order of the…
Contributor:
Uri Fayvesh Segal
Places:
Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1750
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Sakkara, Egypt
Date:
Old Kingdom (Egypt), 23rd–22nd Century BCE
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The train pulls up to the platform, steaming and boiling like a samovar.
Lazar is standing on the platform—short, glowing, joyful—waving his dirty handkerchief at the cars.
The train is on its way to…
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David Khait
Date:
1928
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This is a story that begins with J. It was the fifteenth of July 1930.
It’s about J; it’s about a consonant still a little vowelish, a little i-ish in the aftermath of a magic philology.
Were I not…
Contributor:
Hélène Cixous
Places:
New York City, United States of America
(Paris, France)
Date:
2001
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Artist Unknown
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Eidlitz, Holy Roman Empire
(Údlice, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1805
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Nachman ha-Kohen Bialsker
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Bielsk, Russian Empire
(Bielsk Podlaski, Poland)
Date:
1862
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This silver circumcision set was crafted in Salonika in the Ottoman Empire. The cylindrical silver casket holds a circumcision knife; its handle is made from agate. A similarly shaped powder box and…
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Artist Unknown
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
18th Century
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God, Robin and me had the funniest time trying to decide. I mean it was bizarre. I suppose we had always assumed we would do it, but then, well, when you actually think…
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Jeremy Gavron
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
2002
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Question: Is a proper get [divorce certificate] necessary in the following circumstance: a certain man married a young Jewish woman, and was with her in the manner of men and women, but after some…
Contributor:
Joseph Pallache
Places:
İzmir, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir Province, Turkey)
Date:
1896