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This receipt with ornate Hebrew calligraphy was issued to certify a donation by members of Ferrara’s Jewish community to aid Jews in Jerusalem. The funds were solicited by the rabbi of a yeshiva in…
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
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18th century
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This eighteenth-century map of Venice includes the ghetto within which the city’s Jews were required to live from 1516 until Napoleon’s conquest of the Republic of Venice in 1797. The Venice ghetto…
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1729
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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)
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17th–18th Century
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This is the title page of Me‘on ha-sho’alim (L’abitacolo degli oranti; Abode of the Supplicants), by the poet and translator Devorà Ascarelli, a member of the Catalan community in Rome. Me‘on ha-sho…
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Devorà Ascarelli
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1601
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Tombstone of Shifra Tamari (d. 1565), Padua, Italy. In the early modern period, most Jewish tombstones in Italy were Italian Renaissance in style. Hebrew epitaph poems, like the one on this gravestone…
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
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1565
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This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…
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Early 16th Century
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Like Torah scrolls, the scroll of the biblical book of Esther, read ritually in the synagogue on the holiday of Purim, must be completely unadorned. However, in the sixteenth century, for reasons…
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Andrea Marelli
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1573
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This rare example of a Roman ketubah (marriage contract) from the seventeenth century was written on the occasion of the marriage of Menahem ben Samuel Zadik to Zevia, daughter of the prominent banker…
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Artist Unknown
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1627
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The Hebrew word Shaddai—another name for God—is etched in the center of this ornate silver amulet from Italy.
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ca. 1750
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Beatriz Mendes Beneviste (Doña Gracia the Younger) was born in 1540 in Antwerp. She was the niece of the wealthy and influential Doña Gracia Nasi. In 1544, the family, New Christians of Portuguese…
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Pastorino di Giovan Michele de’ Pastorini
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1557/8