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There are numerous terra-cotta plaque figurines of females, some naked and others clothed, holding disks, mostly from northern Israel and Transjordan. Many come from border towns and towns whose…
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Hazor, Land of Israel
(Tel Hazor, Israel)
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Iron Age II, 9th–8th Century BCE
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Flat Bush, Saturday, 10 o’c[lock]., August 10th, [17]’81
My dear Abby: [ . . . ]
[ . . . ] By the by, few N.York ladies know how to entertain company in their own houses unless they introduce the card…
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Rebecca Franks
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Flatbush, United States of America
Date:
1781
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Cornelis de Bruyn
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1714
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Peter Fehr
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1717
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Moses Belmonte
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1642
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Considering the great harm and dangers that have befallen the religious communities of Israel on account of overdressing both by women and by young men, we, the undersigned honorable parnasim…
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The Portuguese Jewish Community of Tunis
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Tunis, Ottoman Empire
(Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1726
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Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa (1669–1749), the second wife of Don Francisco Lopes Suasso, was descended from a wealthy Portuguese New Christian family who fled the Iberian Peninsula and settled…
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Artist Unknown
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(The Hague, Netherlands)
Date:
1730s–1740s
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Yeshurun sings, when in him it sees a delicate beauty in the bloom of her youth
playing the lyre in her bosom’s embrace, her song gladdening the sorrowful heart.
A charming doe [even] without kohl…
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David Saliman Tsemah
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Baghdad, Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1933
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Jeshurun sings when they see him
Tender beauty in her youth
She plays and her violin is on her bosom
And its singing brings gladness to the heart of the gloomy
An unadorned graceful gazelle
Embellish…
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David Saliman Tsemah
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Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1932
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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1724