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Jar with governor of the city inscription, Kuntillet Ajrud, Sinai Peninsula, late 9th or early 8th century BCE. The inscription reads: “To/of the governor of the city.” This title also appears in the…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel (Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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A bath measure for the king.
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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lakhish, Israel)
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8th Century BCE
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An eruv (or eruv ḥatserot, merger of domains) is a symbolic expansion of an area outside a single home into a larger private domain. Within that eruv, certain activities prohibited in the public…
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Artist Unknown
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Central Europe)
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18th Century
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This silver kiddush cup is believed to have belonged to Judah Loew. Known as the Maharal of Prague, Judah Loew ben Bezalel spent twenty years as rabbi in Moravia, moving in 1573 to the Bohemian…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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Because observant Jews do not light fires or cook on the Sabbath, they prepare hot meals before the beginning of the Sabbath. In some communities, families brought their Sabbath stew (known as cholent…
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1579/1580
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This splendid Torah ark curtain, made in Kriegshaber, Germany, is the work of the embroiderer Elkana Schatz Naumberg of Fürth, whose name appears in an inscription in the central bottom section. It is…
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Joachim Michael Salecker
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1723
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This page from a birkon (Grace after Meals) is an example of the work of Aaron Wolf Herlingen (Aaron Schreiber), a prominent eighteenth-century scribe and artist known for his illustrated Grace after…
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Aaron Wolff Herlingen of Gewitsch
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1724
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This ritual spice container is thought to have been made in Frankfurt am Main. It is decorated to represent a four-story tower with brick walls. At its top, two short spires flank a central, taller…
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Artist Unknown
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Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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ca. 1550
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This enameled glass beaker, belonging to the Polin Burial Society in Bohemia, is a fine example of the melding of Jewish and Bohemian art forms. It features painted figures carrying a body toward a…
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Artist Unknown
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Poleň (Polin), Holy Roman Empire (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1691
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In The Table As It Is, a tabletop perched on precarious legs and precariously set with bottles of wines and glasses seems about to split apart. Dominey’s sculptures present ordinary objects found in…
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Drora Dominey
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1989