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The angel who talked with me came back and woke me as a man is wakened from sleep. He said to me, “What do you see?” And I answered, “I see a lamp-stand all of gold, with a bowl above it. The lamps…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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The Chaldeans broke up the bronze columns of the House of the Lord, the stands, and the bronze tank that was in the House of the Lord; and they carried the bronze away to Babylon. They also took…
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Biblical Period
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They buried her into the darkness itself. As Miko was leaving the cemetery an old Jew took him by the hand. The man called out to his wife from the door: “I’ve brought him home . . . I couldn’t…
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Isak Samokovlija
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Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (Sarajevo, Bosnia)
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1928
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Sixty years ago, Jacob, who was known in his quarter as Old Jacob, was living in the rue de la Mortellerie. He ran a successful business selling old clothes, scrap metal and even, on occasion, old…
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Godchaux Baruch Weil (Ben-Lévi)
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
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1841
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Amulets were crafted to protect pregnant women and newborn children from the powers of the evil Lilith, Adam’s mythical first wife. Mystical texts surround this image, written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and…
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Artist Unknown
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Kingdom of Travancore (State of Kerala, India)
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18th century
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This unusual heart-shaped amulet from Morocco is inscribed with the words “God Almighty,” followed by the priestly blessing (Numbers 6:24–26) and an individualized text: “May God give him life and…
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1861–1862
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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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Artist Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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1858–1859
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Every now and then a different door in the long corridor of the IsPolKom [Executive Committee] would yawn open, partly exposing the profiles of the office workers, emit a hum of muffled chatter and…
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Peretz Markish
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1928
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As for me, I was born in Tsviatshits and my name is Mendele the Book Peddler. Most of the year I’m on the road, travelling from one place to another, so people know me everywhere. I ride all over…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Berdichev, Russian Empire (Berdychiv, Ukraine)
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1864–1865
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Has he had the temerity to speak perversely against the foundations of the faith and of the Torah, and mocked the words of our sages of blessed memory recorded in the Mishnah and the Gemara, or has he…
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Saul Berlin
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1784