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This map, in a manuscript copy of Be’er mayim ḥayim (A Spring of Living Water), a commentary on Rashi published in Worms or Friedberg in the late fifteenth or sixteenth century, is based on Rashi’s…
Contributor:
Ḥayim ben Bezalel
Places:
Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Friedburg (Friedberg, Germany)
Date:
Late 15th or 16th Century
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The Jewish Cemetery at Ouderkerk is one of Jacob van Ruisdael’s better-known works. Purchased for use by the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation in Amsterdam in 1641, the cemetery holds twenty…
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Jacob van Ruisdael
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1654/5
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Faces decorating a siddur.
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1500
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With his asses, male and female,
His woolly sheep and billy goats,
His oxen and his camels
Bearing wineskins on their backs,
With his wives and his handmaids,
His servants and his…
Contributor:
Edmond Fleg
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1913
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It is a work that contains two hundred precious and wondrous stories, full of ethical [edification] and [inspiring] fear of the Lord, sweeter than honey, bringing joy to oppressed hearts and souls…
Contributor:
Yitsḥak Dov Ber ben Tsvi Hirsh
Places:
Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
1900
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Ḥad Gadya (One Little Goat) is a song customarily sung at the end of the Passover seder. It recounts a sequence of events beginning with a young goat purchased by the protagonist’s father that is then…
Contributor:
El Lissitzky
Places:
Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1918
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This silver Torah crown from Padua, Italy, is decorated with images of the tablets of law, incense utensils, the ark of the covenant,
and the headdress of the high priest.
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
17th–18th Century
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Gassing the woodchucks didn’t turn out right.
The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange
was featured as merciful, quick at the bone
and the case we had against them was airtight,
both exits…
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Maxine Kumin
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1972
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A calm summer night. On the horizon loom, very black, the famous woods on the tree trunks of which our ancestors are said to have carved a record of the tractates of the Talmud they had…
Contributor:
Y. L. Peretz
Places:
Tomaszow, Russian Empire (Tomaszów County, Poland)
Date:
1890
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for I. Ehrenburg
Horses weren’t made for water.
They can swim but not too far.
“Gloria” means the same as “glory”—
You will easily remember this part.
Braving the sea, a transatlantic vessel
Ra…
Contributor:
Boris Slutsky
Date:
1956