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Born in Aldgate, London, bare-knuckle pugilist Daniel Mendoza (1764–1836) was the first Jew in England to become heavyweight champion, a title that he defended twice before losing it to John Jackson…
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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ca. 1790
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In this baroque Christian altarpiece that Anton Raphael Mengs painted for the Catholic church, the Colegiata of Castrojeriz, which is near Burgos, Spain, the Madonna is holding an open book. The angel…
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Anton Raphael Mengs
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Madrid, Spanish Empire (Madrid, Spain)
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1767
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Isabel María Parreño Arce y Valdés (1759–1822), the Marquesa de Llano, had her portrait painted by Anton Raphael Mengs, in Parma, Italy, where her husband was the ambassador from Spain. At the time…
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Anton Raphael Mengs
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Madrid, Spanish Empire (Madrid, Spain)
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1770
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Aleksander Lesser’s most famous painting is The Funeral of the Five Victims, which depicts the public funeral of five men shot by the Russian military on March 2, 1861 during a rally calling for…
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Aleksander Lesser
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)
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1861
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“Before and After the Reform.” Cartoon from Der schlemiel: Illustriertes jüdisches Blatt für Humor und Satire lampooning the transformation of a Hasidic Jew into a Reformed Jew.
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Max Jungmann
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1905
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This seventeenth-century silver repoussé and partly gilt Torah shield from Germany is inlaid with semi-precious stones. In the center of the shield appear the ten commandments in a Hebrew inscription…
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Artist Unknown
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17th Century
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The twelve-volume “Bermann Talmud'' was financed by the Court Jew Behrend Lehmann (Issachar Bermann Segal), printed in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, by Michael Gottschalk, and published by John…
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Behrend Lehmann
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1697–99
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During his life, Samuel Abbas amassed an impressive library that included 1,136 books in different languages—Latin (more than four hundred works), Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and…
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Samuel Abbas
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1693
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This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…
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Willem Surenhuys
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1698
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This is an image of the title page of the first printing of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon (The Book of Victory). The book was first published in Altdorf in 1644 by the priest Theodore…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan
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Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Holy Roman Empire (Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany)
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Late 14th to early 15th Century