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This decorated manuscript of the prayers for a circumcision ceremony was owned by one Joseph ben Samuel. On its title page (not shown) is an unidentified coat of arms decorated with the Order of the…
Contributor:
Uri Fayvesh Segal
Places:
Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
1750
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I set the Yiddish letters with my own hands.
Elle, daughter of the respected rabbi Moses from Holland.
I am not more than nine years old.
Among six children I am the only daughter.
Therefore, if you…
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Behrend Lehmann, Elle bat Moses ben Abraham Ger
Places:
Dessau, Holy Roman Empire (Dessau, Germany)
Date:
1696
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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…
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Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1572
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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)
Date:
1842
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Cover of L’Ornement Hebreu (The Hebrew Ornament). This major work on Jewish art reproduced ornaments from medieval Hebrew illuminated manuscripts in the imperial library in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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David Gintsburg, Vladimir Stasov
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1905
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz’s Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden, sonderlich derer in Deutschland (Religious Constitution of Today’s Jews, Especially Those in Germany), published in…
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz, Georg Paul Nusbiegel
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1748/9
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This engraving of the interior of the Alte Synagoge (Synagogue) in Berlin is based on a drawing by Anna M. Werner. It was the first edifice in Berlin built specifically to serve this function…
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1712/14 and 1720
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This woodcut from Libellus de Judaica confessione siue sabbato afflictionis (A Pamphlet Concerning the Jewish Faith or the Sabbath of Affliction), the second treatise of a zealous Christian convert…
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Johannes Pfefferkorn
Places:
Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (Cologne, Germany)
Date:
1508
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This page from a Haggadah produced in Amsterdam is an example of the work of Joseph Ben David Leipnik, a prominent eighteenth-century scribe and artist known particularly for his illustrated Haggadahs…
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Joseph Leipnik
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Holy Roman Empire (Altona, Germany)
Date:
1737
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David Oppenheim (1664–1736) was the chief rabbi of Prague. Born in Worms, he was the son of a communal leader and nephew of Samuel Oppenheim (1630–1703), financier and war contractor to Habsburg…
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Samuel ben Moses
Places:
Dessau, Holy Roman Empire (Dessau, Germany)
Date:
1714