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This sumptuous velvet and gilt-metal-thread embroidered Torah ark curtain most likely began its life as the wedding gown of a well-to-do Jewish woman of the Ottoman Empire. It was unstitched and…
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İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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Early 20th Century
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In Jewish tradition, the end of the Sabbath (or a festival) is marked by the ceremony of Havdalah, which includes the ritual smelling of spices (besomim). Many Jewish cultures approached the box…
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Emanuel Eisler
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ca. 1880
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Paper cuts were a distinctive Jewish folk art in Eastern Europe, where rural Poles and Ukrainians also practiced the craft. Jewish paper cuts had their own techniques and imagery and were used for…
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Late 19th Century
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Rehob, Land of Israel (Tel Reḥov, Israel)
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Iron Age IIA, 9th Century BCE
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This silver Torah pointer from Yemen is inscribed in Hebrew: “[The teaching of the Lord is perfect, renewing life; the decrees of the Lord are enduring, making the simple wise;] the precepts of the…
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18th Century
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Likute Yosef (The Compilation of Joseph), a commentary on prayers, is an important source of information about the Jewish religious culture of Worms, Germany, one of the oldest and most important…
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Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
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17th Century
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In this table, giving the notation for chanting the Torah, the musical notes indicate the melody of each cantillation mark, while the Hebrew words below them indicate the name and shape of the mark.
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ca. 1611
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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)
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1683
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This very early Torah ark curtain from Pesaro was embroidered by Rachel Olivetti and donated to the synagogue in honor of her marriage to Judah Montefiore. The Hebrew text is a poem celebrating and…
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Rachel Olivetti of Pesaro
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Pesaro, Duchy of Urbino (Pesaro, Italy)
Date:
1620
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This prayer book for the Rosh Hashanah festival from Crete is elaborately decorated inside with drawings of animals and people and has a colorful title page. Greek (Romaniote/Byzantine) Jews had lived…
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Moses Bili ben Judah
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Candia, Republic of Venice (Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
1614