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Printed birth amulet. The decorative borders are composed of printers’ devices and decorations that were used by printers in Fürth (Bavaria), so it is assumed that this amulet was printed in that city…
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Artist Unknown
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
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Johann Conrad Weiss
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1711/1712
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On June 7, 1690, Samuel de Isaac Senior Teixeira married Rachel Senior de Mattos in Hamburg. Their beautiful ketubah (marriage contract) depicts the couple under the wedding canopy, accompanied by…
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Artist Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1690
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Artist Unknown
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Westheim, Holy Roman Empire (Westheim, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
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Johann Adam Boller
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1706–1732
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Artist Unknown
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1619–1624
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A member of the Greek Church, once addressed me in the following words:—“Do you know wherefore you have no longer a king of your own people? It is because you have rejected the faith of…
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Isaac Troki
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1593
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Artist Unknown
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Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire (Augsburg, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1690
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Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor, Artist Unknown
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16th Century
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I will raise the matter of trimming the beard
He trims it away like leaven [on the eve of Passover]
He leaves only a small goatee.
One more…
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Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
Date:
16th Century