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In 1670, Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community commissioned a new synagogue, which, when finished, was the largest in the world. The master mason Elias Bouman (ca. 1636–1686), a non-Jew, who had…
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1671–1675
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The frontispiece of this book of penitential prayers published in Amsterdam, Tikun li-kro’ laylah va-yom (A Tikkun to Read Day and Night) has a three-tiered illustration. The top level depicts Moses…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1666
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This belled gilt-silver Torah finial topped with a crown was made in Amsterdam and has been attributed to master silversmith Pieter van Hoven, who lived near the Jewish quarter and is best known for…
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Pieter van Hoven
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1717
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This phantasmagoric portrait of poet and playwright Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios and his family is from Imperio de Dios en la harmonia del mundo(God’s Empire in the Harmony of the World), a…
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Aron de Chavez
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1689
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The de Pinto family were wealthy merchant bankers who lived in Amsterdam from the seventeenth century on. In the Iberian Peninsula, members of the family converted to Christianity at the end of the…
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Romeyn de Hooghe
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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17th Century
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By the time this sea pilot’s map of Suriname was created in 1680, there was a well-established Jewish community there. In the 1660s, Jewish communities arose on the Caribbean islands of Martinique…
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Hendrik Doncker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1688
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In this engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites), a Jewish wedding in Amsterdam is pictured. Groom and bride stand under the huppah…
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Jan Luyken
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1683
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The Book of Esther (also known as the Scroll [megillah] of Esther) is read out loud on the holiday of Purim. This example of an illustrated scroll from the Netherlands (shown here with a page of…
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Abraham de Chaves
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1687
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These four etchings were made by Rembrandt van Rijn for Menasseh Ben Israel’s book, Piedra Gloriosa (Glorious Stone), a messianic treatise. Clockwise from upper left, they illustrate the biblical…
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1655
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This letter hailing Shabbetai Tzvi as the Messiah was signed by twenty-four prominent members of the Amsterdam Jewish community who had founded a learned society, Yeshuot Meshiho, in his honor. It was…
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Eliah ben Michael Judah Leon
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1666