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In answer to those who ask me whether or not it is permitted to paint the walls of the synagogue with pictures of grass, trees, and calyxes, we researched the question and our answer is as follows:
At…
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Samuel Archevolti
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
Late 16th or Early 17th Century
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During his life, Samuel Abbas amassed an impressive library that included 1,136 books in different languages—Latin (more than four hundred works), Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and…
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Samuel Abbas
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1693
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“R. Isaac said, etc.” In Genesis Rabbah it says: “Even though there is not a single superfluous narrative in the Torah—not even ‘the sister of Lotan was Timna’”—for it says in Sanhedrin Chapter ḥelek…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1578
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This rabbinic ordination certificate granted to Judah ben Eliezer Briel was printed as a broadside in Venice and signed by prominent Venetian rabbis. It certifies his learning and his fitness to…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1677
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Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724) occupied a number of prominent roles, including court Jew, Austrian financier, and chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia. This portrait was painted around the time when he…
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Artist Unknown
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
ca. 1700
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A man over eighty is seated at his desk, looking up at an old picture, one more than fifty years old. His eyes meet with those of a beautiful old woman, a woman who was born a…
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Zvi Hirsch Masliansky
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1924
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While the townsfolk knew that an archbishop was coming, no one in Skalle [Skala, today Ukraine] made a big fuss about the news. It was only when pine gates were set up at the entrance that people…
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Fradl Shtok
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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We’re laughing our heads off:
None of us wears a top-hat
We just go around with heads—or without heads—
But the Rabbi of Uman
Holds up a mirror to the sun.
We laugh our heads off
When a gang comes…
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Leyb Kvitko
Date:
1923
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[ . . . ] The two worlds, in my childhood, were not really separate. The synagogue in Graham Street, to which we walked across the Meadows every Saturday morning, was as much a part of the Edinburgh…
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David Daiches
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Cambridge, United Kingdom
Date:
1956
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The new Rabbi pleased everybody, because he was beyond all doubt a righteous man. I was then a boy of twelve. My father received two letters from Rabbi Yukel on the subject of a good match for me in…
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Ber of Bolechów
Places:
Bolechow, Habsburg Empire (Bolekhiv, Ukraine)
Date:
ca. 1790–1800