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502. Since our eyes have seen the great neglect of Torah among schoolchildren, caused by [not] printing of folios of the Gemara [with Rashi’s commentary], because the…
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Moses Belmonte, The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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1655, 1667, 1679
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In meetings of the community’s Mahamad [board of governors], past and present, discussions were held about a book that Gideon [Abudiente] ordered printed concerning the…
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Joseph ben Abraham Athias, Abraham Bar Jacob, The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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1666
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A song I engraved on the tombstone (matzevet) of my master, my father, may he be remembered for the life of the world to come. The holy seed shall be its stock (matzavtah; Isaiah 6:13), is it not the…
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Bernard Picart, Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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Beginning of the 18th Century
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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
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1724
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
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1695
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The wooden synagogue in Gwozńdziec, eastern Galicia (modern-day Ukraine), was one of more than two hundred wooden synagogues that existed in Poland before World War II. Such synagogues were popular…
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Gwoździec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Gwoździec, Poland)
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ca. 1650
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This synagogue structure contains stunning samples of wood painting and folk motifs (including verses, images of Jerusalem, animals, and flowers). The panels were decorated by Eliezer Zusman, an…
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Unterlimpurg, Habsburg Empire (Unterlimpurg, Germany)
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1738/9
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Emanuel de Witte
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1680
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Three representatives of the Prague Burial Society in the 1730s are pictured in these portraits: Jonas Jeitteles (1735–1806, the community’s official physician), Rabbi Leib Fayvel Dayan (another…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1733
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Catherine da Costa
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1745