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This elaborately decorated title page is from a book of Psalms created by the scribe Nathan ben Samson in Gross Meseritsch, Moravia (today Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic). On the left is Aaron in his…
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Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch
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Gross Meseritsch, Holy Roman Empire (Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic)
Date:
1728
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This is an image of the title page of the first printing of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon (The Book of Victory). The book was first published in Altdorf in 1644 by the priest Theodore…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan
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Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Holy Roman Empire (Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany)
Date:
Late 14th to early 15th Century
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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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Asher bar Samuel ha-Kohen, Leyb ben Samuel Oppenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1624
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In meetings of the community’s Mahamad [board of governors], past and present, discussions were held about a book that Gideon [Abudiente] ordered printed concerning the…
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Joseph ben Abraham Athias, Abraham Bar Jacob, The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1666
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This illustration depicting Jewish death and mourning rituals (a sick man on his deathbed, a body laid out for burial, and a funeral procession) appeared in the book, Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish…
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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1724
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According to the colophon, Natan Hammerschlag’s Ilan de-adam kadmon (Sefirotic Diagram of the First Man) was copied from the writings of Ḥayim Vital, the most prominent disciple of Isaac Luria…
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Natan Hammerschlag
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Moravia, Holy Roman Empire (Moravia, Czech Republic)
Date:
1691
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This page from a birkon (Grace after Meals) is an example of the work of Aaron Wolf Herlingen (Aaron Schreiber), a prominent eighteenth-century scribe and artist known for his illustrated Grace after…
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Aaron Wolff Herlingen of Gewitsch
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1724
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The frontispiece of this Haggadah shows the biblical Aaron on the left, carrying the Temple incense, and Moses on the right, holding the tablets of the Law. The scene at the bottom of the page shows a…
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Aaron Wolff Herlingen of Gewitsch
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1725
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This page is from a manuscript containing stories in Yiddish. It was copied and illustrated in Tannhausen, Germany between 1580 and 1600, for the Ulma family, who owned a number of important…
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Isaac bar Yuda Reutlingen
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1580–1600
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Despite gender restrictions, Jewish women played central roles as religious leaders in the early modern period. Meet the female leader of one of the most controversial cults in Jewish history.
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Brno, Holy Roman Empire (Brno, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1771