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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Karl Alexander. Economic reforms enacted by Karl Alexander (and informed by Oppenheimer…
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Artist Unknown
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Holy Roman Empire (Altona, Germany)
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After 1738
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Illustrated title page from a manuscript siddur from Italy according to the Romaniote (Greek) rite, with prayers focused on marriage and birth rituals and customs, as well as the pidyon ha-ben…
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Artist Unknown
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Parma, Duchy of Milan (Parma, Italy)
Date:
1766
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This edition of Moses Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed was printed in Sabbioneta, Italy by Cornelio Adelkind for Tobias Foà. The twelfth-century work was an attempt to reconcile Aristotelianism with…
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Moses Maimonides, Cornelio Adelkind
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Sabbioneta, Duchy of Mantua (Sabbioneta, Italy)
Date:
1553
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This decorated psalter was made for Aaron de Joseph de Pinto, a member of the prominent Portuguese Jewish family in Amsterdam. It is a manuscript, copied from a print edition done by David de Castro…
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Meir Cohen Belinfante, Isaac Siprut
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1728
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This Haggadah from Mantua, published by the Christian printer Giacomo Rufinelli under the supervision of Isaac ben Solomon Bassan, relies heavily on the Prague Haggadah of 1526, with the addition of…
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Isaac ben Samuel Bassan, Giacomo Rufinelli
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1560
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These are marginal illustrations found in a manuscript siddur from Italy according to the Romaniote rite, with prayers focused on marriage and birth rituals and customs, as well as the pidyon ha-ben…
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Artist Unknown
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Parma, Duchy of Milan (Parma, Italy)
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ca. 1500
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This etching of a Jewish woman from Thrace (a region located in present day Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey) is from Livre curieux contenant la naive représentation des habits des femmes des diverses…
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Wenceslaus Hollar
Places:
Arundel, Kingdom of Great Britain (Arundel, United Kingdom)
Date:
1644
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This woodcut was published in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) after Aronson had left the Soviet Union. In it, Aronson combined elements of cubo-futurism and constructivism. Several figures can be spotted…
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Boris Aronson
Places:
Moscow, Russian SFSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1920
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Tkhiyes-hameysim (The Resurrection of the Dead) is a dramatic poem by Moyshe Broderzon inspired by medieval Christian “mystery” (or “miracle”) plays that presented bible stories and were performed in…
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Vincent Brauner (Yitskhok Broyner)
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Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1920
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Most important is to listen to the soul bird, because sometimes it calls us and we don’t hear it.
This is a shame – it wants to tell us about ourselves.
It wants to tell us about the feelings that…
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Michal Snunit
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1984