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16th Century
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Bingen, Holy Roman Empire
(Bingen, Germany)
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1700
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Home to a Jewish community from at least the thirteenth century, Pesaro later became the refuge of Portuguese and Spanish Jews in the sixteenth century. In 1642, a few years after the town’s Jews were…
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Pesaro, Duchy of Urbino
(Pesaro, Italy)
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Late 16th Century
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This Hanukkah Lamp from Poland is made from brass and would likely have been placed near the Torah ark in a synagogue. An engraved and cast eagle sits above a domed cupola, representing gratitude and…
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17th Century
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Tobias Völsch
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Hamburg, Free Imperial City of Hamburg
(Hamburg, Germany)
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Late 17th Century
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These gilt-silver finials—which bear the Hebrew calendar year of 5502 (1742)—are considered the earliest dated finials from Iraq. On top of each finial is a miniature ḥamsa, a charm in the shape of a…
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1742
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Michael Müllner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
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Early 17th Century
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
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17th Century
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Sasow, Russian Empire
(Sasiv, Ukraine)
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Late 19th–Early 20th Century
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In Jewish tradition, the command to “bind them [God’s words] as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead” is understood as requiring passages from the Torah to be written on…
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Qumran, Land of Israel
(Khirbat Qumrān, Israel)
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Second Temple Period