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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Karl Alexander. Economic reforms enacted by Karl Alexander (and informed by Oppenheimer…
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Artist Unknown
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Holy Roman Empire (Altona, Germany)
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After 1738
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These four etchings were made by Rembrandt van Rijn for Menasseh Ben Israel’s book, Piedra Gloriosa (Glorious Stone), a messianic treatise. Clockwise from upper left, they illustrate the biblical…
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1655
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It would not seem proper, most magnificent Lady, that now we are about to print the Bible in our Spanish tongue, translated from the Hebrew word for word—so rare a work never before known until our…
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Yom Tob Athias, Abraham Usque
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1553
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This edition of Moses Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed was printed in Sabbioneta, Italy by Cornelio Adelkind for Tobias Foà. The twelfth-century work was an attempt to reconcile Aristotelianism with…
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Moses Maimonides, Cornelio Adelkind
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Sabbioneta, Duchy of Mantua (Sabbioneta, Italy)
Date:
1553
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This is a technical diagram from Joseph Delmedigo’s Sefer Elim (Book of Elim), a scientific and philosophical work published by Menasseh Ben Israel.
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Menasseh Ben Israel, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1629
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These three pages come from a catalogue of books listed for sale by Samuel ben Israel Soeiro, a bookseller in Amsterdam. It lists first the Hebrew books and then the ones in Spanish. He printed the…
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Samuel ben Israel Soeiro, Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1652
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The press of Solomon Proops was one of the most prolific and well-known Hebrew presses in eighteenth-century Europe. The printer’s mark used by Proops (which does not appear on all his works) depicts…
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Solomon Proops
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1730
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PrefaceSince through the good Hand of GOD upon me, he has not only taken Moses’s Vail from me, but even has Placed me in his Service, i.e. to Teach and Promote the Knowledge of the Hebrew Tongue at…
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Judah Monis
Places:
Boston, Kingdom of Great Britain (Boston, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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It is known that one who lacks books lacks knowledge, for a man’s knowledge is limited in its reach by the reach of his books; and there is no artist without tools. Many new books came…
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Simon Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1703–1712
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This etching depicts a body being brought for burial in the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish cemetery at Ouderkerk, the oldest Jewish cemetery (est. 1614) in the Netherlands, located on the Amstel River.
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Romeyn de Hooghe
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1675–ca. 1695