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Born in Eisenstadt (in Burgenland) and educated in Mattersdorf and Breslau, Akiva Eger (1761-1837) was a prominent rabbinic and halakhic leader. After living in Lissa, Prussia, he served as rabbi in…
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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Early 19th Century
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The women’s prayer section depicted in this painting gives a rare glimpse into the ways that women have asserted their agency and voices even in gender-segregated spaces.
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Maurycy Gottlieb
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1878
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Religious Liberty was commissioned by the Jewish fraternal organization B’nai B’rith in honor of the American centennial in 1876. It was Moses Ezekiel’s first major commission. Freedom and…
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Moses Ezekiel
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1876
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The Óbuda Synagogue in Budapest is the oldest functioning synagogue in Hungary. The building was inaugurated in 1821. Its restrained, neoclassical aesthetic was consistent with popular architectural…
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Andreas Landesherr
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Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
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1820–1821
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Theresa Concordia Mengs painted this self-portrait with pastels, her preferred medium, when she was about twenty years old, a few years after her family moved from Dresden to Rome.
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Theresa Concordia Mengs
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Dresden, Holy Roman Empire (Dresden, Germany)
Date:
1745
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David Tevele Schiff (d. 1791) was the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1765 until his death. At the time of his appointment, the rabbi of the Great Synagogue was also considered to be the…
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Martha Isaacs
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1765
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One of Charlotte von Rothschild’s most outstanding works is the only known nineteenth-century Hebrew manuscript to have been illuminated by a woman.
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Charlotte von Rothschild
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Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1842
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This Torah shield contains a rare example of a personal inscription by the silversmith, stating: “This is the work of my hands in which I take pride, Ze’ev ben Abraham [?], silversmith from Piotrków…
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Ze’ev ben Abraham [?]
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Piotrków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland)
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1766
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Paper cuts have been a tradition of Jewish folk art, with the earliest record of one dating to the fourteenth century. Given the widespread availability of paper in Europe by the mid-nineteenth…
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Moses Michael Rosenboim
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Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia (Trzcianka, Poland)
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1848
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In 1860, the Austrian Jewish community commissioned a medal of appreciation for Franz Joseph to commemorate the emperor’s granting to Jews the right to own property within the Austrian Empire. On the…
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Wenzel Seidan
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Paris, Second French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1860