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This lithograph portrays great figures from Jewish history whose first names are Moses. Clockwise from the center: the biblical Moses (evoking Michelangelo’s famous sculpture), Moses Mendelssohn…
Contributor:
Salo Schottländer
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German Empire (Germany, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1900
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The best of the Western Jews have gradually become used to talking about the existence of a Jewish people as if it were a logical and historically proven fact.
But they have not yet arrived at the…
Contributor:
Fritz Kaufmann
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913
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This print depicting the Jewish cemetery of Fürth, Germany, is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400…
Contributor:
Johannes Alexander Böner
Places:
Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)
Date:
1705
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This ketubah was written for the wedding of Isaac Senior Teixeira (1631–1705) and Rachel Senior de Mattos. The wealthy Teixeira family (also known as Teixeira de Mattos or Teixeira de Sampayo), was…
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Unknown
Places:
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1648
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Kiddush cups are used for the ritual blessing over wine. This one, partially made of gold, was crafted in Nuremberg, Germany, and was used in a synagogue in Lublin, Poland. The engraved plant and…
Contributor:
Michael Müllner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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And if one were to ask: why is it that in our generation—and even in the time of the Ari of blessed memory (who successfully revealed many higher secrets)—neither fire nor angels appear, as they did…
Contributor:
Nehemiah Ḥiya Ḥayun
Places:
Berlin, Holy Roman Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1713
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This print depicting a veiled Jewish bride assisted by two other women is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350…
Contributor:
Johannes Alexander Böner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705
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Sivlonot were, traditionally, gifts from the groom to his bride before the wedding. German Jewish brides and grooms gave each other belts, which were then worn during the wedding ceremony, sometimes…
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Artist Unknown
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17th Century
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This engraving depicting a Jewish wedding procession was an illustration in a four- volume book by Johann Jakob Schudt (1664–1722), Jüdische Merkwürdigkeiten (Jewish Curiosities), published in Germany…
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Peter Fehr
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1717
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For German Jews, it was traditional in the wedding ceremony for the groom to perform the ritual of breaking a glass in remembrance of the destruction of the Temple by hurling it or banging it against…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Bingen, Holy Roman Empire (Bingen, Germany)
Date:
1700