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Printing, which Jews adopted immediately after its invention, helped to unify far-flung communities. Where previously Jewish learning had been transmitted through the individual copying of manuscripts…
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Daniel Bomberg
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1522/3–1524
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This rabbinic ordination certificate granted to Judah ben Eliezer Briel was printed as a broadside in Venice and signed by prominent Venetian rabbis. It certifies his learning and his fitness to…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1677
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Jacob Mahler by the University of Padua, Italy. Mahler, born in Bingen-on-Rhine, Germany, studied medicine and philosophy, and in 1695 was awarded a…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1695
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Title page of the first known printed version of the Ku-bukh (Cow Book), a sixteenth-century collection of Yiddish fables, published in Verona, Italy in 1595. The later compendium of Yiddish stories…
Places:
Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
1595