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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 ketubah (marriage contract), was signed in Bayonne, France, whose Jewish community originated with New Christians from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth century. It marks the wedding of Isaac…
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Artist Unknown
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Bayonne, Kingdom of France
(Bayonne, France)
Date:
1705
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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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This richly decorated Torah binder is thought to be from Rechnitz, based on its dedication as a gift from Gitl bat Samuel for Samuel ben Leib of Rechnitz in 1750. The Torah binder (also known as a…
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Artist Unknown
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Rechnitz, Habsburg Empire
(Rechnitz, Austria)
Date:
1750
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I had been living in tranquility in my home, refreshed in my sanctuary, my palace, in the holy congregation of Prague for some twenty-eight years after they had chosen me from the assembly to be a…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1645
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Terah’s wife is pregnant
day after day she turned pale,
she already knew what she had
but she did not reveal it to her husband.
One day she went out to fields and vineyards,
she found a cavern and…
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Unknown
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(Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia)
Date:
ca. 1800
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At the time when the florid season,
joyful springtime of life,
the tender infancy of its ardent age,
made its first step in the Orient
placing flower before Aprils
to my first juvenile…
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Diego Basurto Henríquez
Places:
Rouen, Kingdom of France
(Rouen, France)
Date:
1649
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Even after the crowd had dispersed, I couldn’t bring myself to leave the Tsirkin farm. The longer I stood watching, the more stagnant the clear water grew, forming a green nightmare of slime before my…
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Meir Shalev
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1988
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Here, dear reader, is a prayer for you that I composed to be recited on the first night—before your permitted intercourse, by virtue of the marriage canopy, wedding ceremony, and marriage contract…
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Pinḥas Barukh Monselice
Places:
Ferrara, Papal States
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
Second Half of the 17th Century
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Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who created His world for the purpose of mankind, and, from all the different sorts of men, chose for Himself a nation as a special treasure—namely…
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Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1542