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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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Moses Mordechai Margaliot (d. 1617) was a member of a family descended from the illustrious medieval scholar Rashi. Margaliot served as a rabbi in Kraków. He was buried in the cemetery of the Rema…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1617
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Torah finials are a pair of ornaments used to decorate the upper ends of the rollers on which the Torah scroll is wound. The Hebrew term rimonim, which means “pomegranates,” references the…
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Myer Myers
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Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies (Philadelphia, United States of America)
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1776
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The ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, it outlines the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and is written in Aramaic. This one, made in Bucharest, Romania…
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Artist Unknown
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Bucharest, Austrian Empire (Bucharest, Romania)
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1859
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Jewish Tailor is one of Mark Antokolski’s earliest sculptures, created while he was still a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The work appeared in an era of liberalization of tsarist…
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Mark Antokolski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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1864
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This paper cut, commemorating the anniversary of a date of death, originates from Galicia.
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Artist Unknown
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Austro-Hungarian Empire (Galicia, Ukraine)
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1867–1880
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This caricature by the Henschel brothers celebrates the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in December 1813. This battle, the final in Napoleon’s “German Campaign,” is also known as the…
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Gebrüder Henschel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1813
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CharactersMaenoyakh, an old citizen of BethlehemShulamis, his daughterAvisholom, a young hero descended from the Maccabees.
Avisholom
I shall not leave here until I have rested
Jerusalem…
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Abraham Goldfaden
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Iasi, Kingdom of Romania (Iasi, Romania)
Briarcliff Manor, United States of America
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1881