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Arnold Böcklin is dead—yet who among you knew that he lived? If I were to tell you that he was the man who knew how, with paintbrush dipped in colors upon a piece of canvas, to shake every heart…
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David Frishman
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1901
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The Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) was founded in Philadelphia in 1888. (It had a number of precursors that did not last.) Today, JPS is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher…
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Moses Ezekiel
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913
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In his design for the Merhavia cooperative farm (kibbutz), Alexander Baerwald arranged one-story residential buildings and a two-story main building, used for storage and equipment, around a central…
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Alexander Baerwald
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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ca. 1912
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Born to converso parents and baptized as Manoel Dias Soeiro, Menasseh Ben
Israel moved as a boy with his family to Amsterdam, where
they reverted openly to Judaism. In 1626, he established the first…
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Shalom Italia
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1640–1649
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Kehunat Avraham (The Priesthood of Abraham), published in Venice in 1719, is an interpretation and retelling of sections from the book of Psalms in verse. This portrait of its author is believed to be…
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Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1719
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Based on a painting, now lost, by Maurits Leon, this lithograph by Johannes Heinrich Rennefeld (1832–1877) seems to depict a scene from an 1837 novel about Spinoza by German Jewish author Berthold…
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Maurits Leon
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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ca. 1865–1870
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Iehudah Machabeu (calligrapher), Exemplar Leaf. La Rochelle, France, 1655. It shows samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian…
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Iehudah Machabeu
Date:
1655
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This drawing and the following replica of a pillared house are composites of many excavated houses from the Iron Age, 1200 to 586 BCE; none has been discovered standing. The images show domestic…
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Iron Age, 12th–6th century BCE
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These two modern depictions of the Temple built by King Solomon on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem are based on biblical descriptions and pertinent archaeological evidence from other sanctuaries and…
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Biblical Period
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Jacob Mahler by the University of Padua, Italy. Mahler, born in Bingen-on-Rhine, Germany, studied medicine and philosophy, and in 1695 was awarded a…
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1695