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This depiction of a Polish Jew first appeared in a book, Neu-eröffnete Welt-Galleria (New Gallery of the World), published in Nuremberg in 1703. Its 101 plates by Caspar Luyken included portraits of…
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1703
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This print depicting the Jewish cemetery of Fürth, Germany, is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400…
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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)
Date:
1705
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The wealthy merchant and diplomat Jeronimo Nunes da Costa (Mozes Curiël) was born in Florence in 1620. In 1627, his family settled in Hamburg, where his father, a businessman, became an important…
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Romeyn de Hooghe
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1700
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In this seventeenth-century map, Jerusalem is depicted as a fairly dense city within a wall, with only a few structures outside. Men in Arab dress stand in small groups conversing with one another in…
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George Braun, Franciscus Hogenberg
Places:
Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (Cologne, Germany)
Date:
1612
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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, a non-Jew who had helped design the…
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Adolf van der Laan
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1710
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The rhymed Hebrew inscription below the picture of Yeḥiel Mikhel ben Nathan of Lublin notes that he had formerly been a cantor in Lublin and is presently serving in that role in Amsterdam, in 1699…
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Pieter van den Berge
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1699
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Shabbetai Tzvi was the central figure of a messianic movement that swept the Jewish world in the mid-seventeenth century. Born in Izmir (Smyrna), as an adolescent Shabbetai Tzvi embarked on the study…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1669
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This is the frontispiece of a 1661 edition of Synagoga Judaica, a study of the customs and culture of German Jewry by Christian Hebraist, and polemical critic of Judaism, Johannes Buxtorf the Elder…
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Johannes Buxtorf
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Basel, Swiss Confederacy (Basel, Switzerland)
Date:
1661
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This engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites) pictures a Jewish divorce ceremony in Amsterdam, in which the wife is presented with a…
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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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This is the frontispiece to the first volume of Blasio Ugolino’s Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum, a thirty-four-volume collection of Latin treatises on Jewish customs, laws, institutions, and sacred…
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Blasio Ugolino, Giovanni Cattini
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1744