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This watercolor from the Gennadius Library’s Costume Album collection, in Athens, depicts two Jewish women—a widow (left) and a married woman (right)—in the colorful traditional attire of…
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Artist Unknown
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1574
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Bursa, Ottoman Empire (Bursa, Turkey)
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ca. 1800
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İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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Early 20th Century
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Solomon Adeni
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Hebron, Ottoman Empire (Hebron, Palestine)
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ca. 1611
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Vidin, Ottoman Empire (Vidin, Bulgaria)
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1658
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Angora, Ottoman Empire (Ankara, Turkey)
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1826
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This satirical political cartoon, printed in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the Ladino socialist periodical El Pueblo, mocks Theodor Herzl’s 1902 visit to Istanbul, while also indicating the brutal policies of…
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Artist Unknown
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Ottoman Empire (Bulgaria, Bulgaria)
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1902
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This is the frontispiece of the Constantinople Polyglot Bible, the first of two multilingual editions of the Pentateuch printed by Eliezer Soncino in Constantinople. It contained the Hebrew text of…
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Artist Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1546
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This shadai’a (dedicatory plaque) from the Romaniote community in Ioannina, Greece, is made of repoussé silver with an engraved Hebrew inscription. The central inscription is a rhymed text dedicated…
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Ioannina, Ottoman Empire (Ioannina, Greece)
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1728