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1902
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The [bram]ble sent a message to the pomegranate as follows: “Dear Pomegranate, what good are all [your] thorns [to him who tou]ches your [fru]it?” The [pome] granate replied to the bramble, “You are…
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Elephantine (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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Fifth Century BCE
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The earth shudders at three things,
At four which it cannot bear:
A slave who becomes king;
A scoundrel sated with food;
A loathsome woman who gets married;
A slave-girl who supplants her…
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Biblical Period
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On this silver Purim cup from Augsburg, Germany, a quotation from the Talmud (b. Megillah 7b) inscribed around the rim advises its bearer to drink in celebration of Purim until unable to distinguish…
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Artist Unknown
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Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire (Augsburg, Germany)
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ca. 1690
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This maḥzor (holiday prayer book) contains the festival prayers for the whole year, according to the rite of Carpentras, and was copied in Provence. The Jews of the former papal territory of Comtat…
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Artist Unknown
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Carpentras, Papal States (Carpentras, France)
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1540/1
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There is no need to provide evidence concerning the great value of folk songs when one wishes to study the history of a people—any people—and all it has undergone. Alongside the history books of each…
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Shaul Ginsburg, Peysakh Marek
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1898
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It seemed to us that there would be a real interest, for the natives and Arabists alike, to have between their hands a collection of ghernata [Granada] poetry as complete as possible and methodically…
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Edmond-Nathan Yafil
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Algiers, French Protectorate of Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1904
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The science of Folk-lore tries to explain in a scientific way the origin, growth and development of popular literature; it discovers the sources from which the popular fancy has drawn its materials…
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Moses Gaster
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Oxford, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Date:
1886
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All the Jews of Morocco donned mourning clothes when the bad news reached them, and everyone wailed and wept in public—because R. Judah was beloved and cherished and highly honored for his integrity…
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Avraham S. Friedberg
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1893
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Head of a Young Jew, Natan Altman’s most famous sculpture, is an expression of his desire to set a new, modern course for Jewish art. The asymmetrical sculpture, a combination of bronze, copper, and…
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Natan Altman
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1916