Showing Results 1 - 10 of 21
Public Access
Image
This Torah binder, made for boys at birth and later brought by young men as a symbol of participation in the synagogue, illustrates the fixed nature of traditional gender expectations.
Contributor:
Koppel ben Moses Heller
Places:
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
(Munich, Germany)
Date:
1814
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I am a stranger.
Since no one dares approach me
I would be girded with towers
That wear their steep and stone-gray caps
Aloft in clouds.
The brazen key you will not find
That locks the musty…
Contributor:
Gertrud Kolmar
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1932
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
On June 7, 1690, Samuel de Isaac Senior Teixeira married Rachel Senior de Mattos in Hamburg. Their beautiful ketubah (marriage contract) depicts the couple under the wedding canopy, accompanied by…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1690
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
On Tuesday afternoon prayers, when the cantor reaches Taḥanun [prayers of supplication], the groom walks to the door of the synagogue while the congregation recites Taḥanun, and…
Contributor:
Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz, Georg Paul Nusbiegel, Judah Leib Kirchheim
Places:
Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1631
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Jakob Steinhardt
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913–1914
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
I. W. Loewenbach
Places:
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
(Munich, Germany)
Date:
1826
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Bingen, Holy Roman Empire
(Bingen, Germany)
Date:
1700
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Johannes Alexander Böner
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Peter Fehr
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1717
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
24 December. Sunday. [ . . . ]
This morning my nephew’s circumcision. A short, bow-legged man, Austerlitz, who already has 2,800 circumcisions behind him, deftly executed the affair. The oper is…
Contributor:
Franz Kafka
Places:
Date:
1911