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Moses ben Abraham Pescarol’s illuminated scroll of Esther, completed in Ferrara, constitutes one of the oldest examples of an illustrated manuscript of this biblical book, which is chanted on the…
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Moses Pescarol
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1618
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These depictions of Jewish women from Adrianople (present day Edirne, Turkey) is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have done his own illustrations. Considered…
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Nicolas de Nicolay
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1585
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This depiction of a Jewish merchant is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have also done his own illustrations. Considered at the time a key source of…
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Nicolas de Nicolay
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1585
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This woodcut depicts Jewish women and girls lighting candles to mark the beginning of the Sabbath or a holiday. The illustration appears in a Yiddish translation by Shim’on Levi Gintsburg, printed in…
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Isaac Tyrnau, Shim’on Levi Gintsburg
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1600
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Dialoghi di m. Magino Gabrielli Hebreo, sopra l’utile sue inventioni circa la seta (Dialogues of Magino Gabrielli, Hebrew, On the Utility of His Inventions in Silk Production), printed in Rome, is a…
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Meir Magino
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1560
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Beatriz Mendes Beneviste (Doña Gracia the Younger) was born in 1540 in Antwerp. She was the niece of the wealthy and influential Doña Gracia Nasi. In 1544, the family, New Christians of Portuguese…
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Pastorino di Giovan Michele de’ Pastorini
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1557/8
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When Vittorio Matteo Corcos painted this portrait of Elena Vecchi, depictions of modern and confident young women were not uncommon in literature but were still rare in the visual arts. This painting…
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Vittorio Matteo Corcos
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
Date:
1896