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This letter hailing Shabbetai Tzvi as the Messiah was signed by twenty-four prominent members of the Amsterdam Jewish community who had founded a learned society, Yeshuot Meshiho, in his honor. It was…
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Eliah ben Michael Judah Leon
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1666
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The stamp of Joseph Knebel’s publishing house features his initials, J. K., on a leaf-like shield mounted on a floral wreath.
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Joseph Knebel
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1909
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This manuscript copy of Sefer ha-kavanot (The Book of [Kabbalistic] Intentions [in Prayer and Performance of Precepts]) by Ḥayim Vital was written in Meknes, Morocco. The kabbalists in Safed stressed…
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David ben Aaron Ibn Ḥasin
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Meknes, Kingdom of Morocco (Meknes, Morocco)
Date:
1737
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Born to converso parents and baptized as Manoel Dias Soeiro, Menasseh Ben
Israel moved as a boy with his family to Amsterdam, where
they reverted openly to Judaism. In 1626, he established the first…
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Shalom Italia
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640–1649
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Like Torah scrolls, the scroll of the biblical book of Esther, read ritually in the synagogue on the holiday of Purim, must be completely unadorned. However, in the sixteenth century, for reasons…
Contributor:
Andrea Marelli
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1573
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Founded in 1897 in New York City, the democratic socialist Yiddish daily Forverts quickly became the most popular Jewish newspaper in the United States (and the most widely circulated non-English…
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George Boehm
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912
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Cartoon in the satirical weekly Borsszem Jankó, depicting the first generation of Borsszem Janko’s writers and illustrators at Kávéforrás (the Coffee Fountain) on Fürdő Street in Budapest, Hungary.
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1887
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This maḥzor (holiday prayer book), containing the Jewish prayers according to the Italian rite, was written by the scribe Eliezer ben Abraham of Pisa, for Yema, the widow of Moses of Modena (referred…
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Eliezer ben Abraham of Pisa
Places:
Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1531
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Moses ben Abraham Pescarol’s illuminated scroll of Esther, completed in Ferrara, constitutes one of the oldest and most unusual examples of illustrated manuscripts of this biblical book, which is…
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Moses Pescarol
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1616
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“Subscription for the Year 1903 to the First Daily Zhargon [Yiddish] Newspaper in Russia, Der fraynd.Der fraynd (The Friend) was the first Yiddish daily in the Russian Empire. Founded by Shaul…
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1903