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In the back of a manuscript collection of astronomical texts, which includes one of Abraham ibn Ezra’s works on the use of the astrolabe (a tool for astronomical calculations), is a set of crude but…
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ca. 1629
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Uri of Biella
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1564
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Simeon ben Naphtali
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Marckolsheim, Kingdom of France (Marckolsheim, France)
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1662
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1500
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Solomon Norzi
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1527
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This ketubah (marriage contract) from Damascus, signed on the 21st of Shevat 5466, or February 5, 1706, features a text set within an arch, and flanked on both sides and above with green and orange…
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Artist Unknown
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Damascus, Ottoman Empire (Damascus, Syria)
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1706
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While ketubot (marriage contracts) are usually written in Aramaic, Karaite ketubot are written in Hebrew. They are often pentagonal in shape, most often with a pointed bottom. This example has a…
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Artist Unknown
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Chufut-Kale, Russian Empire (Hora Chufutkale, Ukraine)
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1719
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Jews first settled in Kaifeng, the capital of Henan province in central China, before 1127. According to scholars, they had come from India or Persia, spoke Persian, and worked as cotton dyers and…
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Kaifeng, Qing Dynasty (Kaifeng, China)
Date:
1722
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Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna
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Polná, Holy Roman Empire (Polná, Czech Republic)
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1719
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Andrea Marelli
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
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1573