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Johannes Buxtorf
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Basel, Swiss Confederacy
(Basel, Switzerland)
Date:
1661
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Will Eisner
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1940
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This rabbinic ordination certificate granted to Judah ben Eliezer Briel was printed as a broadside in Venice and signed by prominent Venetian rabbis. It certifies his learning and his fitness to…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1677
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1695
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Judah Monis
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Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies
(Cambridge, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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502. Since our eyes have seen the great neglect of Torah among schoolchildren, caused by [not] printing of folios of the Gemara [with Rashi’s commentary], because the…
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Moses Belmonte, The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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1655, 1667, 1679
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Shmuel Niger
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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Cover image and page 4 of Moyshe Broderzon’s Temerl, illustrated by Joseph Chaikov.
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Joseph (Iosif) Chaikov, Moyshe Broderzon
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1718/19 and 1732/33
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Seek ye out the book of the Lord (Isaiah 34:16), and read The Holy Epistle [so] called to water the flock, go and browse.
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Aszer Szmuel, Anshel of Kraków, David Darshan
Places:
Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1571