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This scroll of Esther from Germany, created for use on the holiday of Purim, is extensively decorated, with illustrations of biblical scenes from the Esther story, as well as various flora and fauna…
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1630
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Julius Helfft
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1849
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1841
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No householder or unmarried man above the age of thirteen may wear a colored hat in the synagogue on Shabbat or Yom Tov, only a black hat. Likewise, a householder may not come to the synagogue wearing…
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The Jewish Communities of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
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1714–1733
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Better still than this is that they should recite the “Verses of Praise,” Yigdal and Adon Olam, and the other exalted prayers on Sabbaths and festivals to the accompaniment of the harp and the sound…
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Aaron Chorin
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1818
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Artist Unknown
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1831
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1847
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Anonymous
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ca. 1611
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“The tragic element in Shostakovich’s worldview” is the subject of longstanding debate. Was it a prophetic dream of Soviet Jewry, the spirit of which weighed on Shostakovich even in his youth? His…
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Leonid Girshovich
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1998
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Friedrich Georg Weitsch
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1802