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Palm imagery is a common motif in decorative architectural elements like window balustrades. Each of the four columns in this partial restoration from the biblical period is six inches in diameter and…
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Ramat Rahel, Land of Israel (Ramat Rahel, Israel)
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Iron Age II, Late 8th–Early 7th Century BCE
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1898
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Benjamin-Eugène Fichel
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Paris, France
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Date Unknown, 19th century
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This medal for St. Stephanskirche in Vienna provides an example of the style innovated by its engraver Jacques Wiener (1815–1899), in which the exterior of a building appears on one side and the…
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Jacques Wiener
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Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium)
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1862
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Abraham Solomon
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London, United Kingdom
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1857
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This banner of the London Jewish Bakers’ Union calls for (in both English and Yiddish) an eight-hour workday and an end to night work, for people to buy only bread “with the union label,” and for…
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
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1905
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Lutsk (Łuck), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lutsk, Ukraine)
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17th Century
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This Torah mantle was made in Vienna in the eighteenth century. It is embroidered with silk and metallic thread, metallic ribbon, and has metallic fringes. Set against a red background, this mantle’s…
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1722/3
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This glimpse into an eighteenth-century German Jewish marriage ceremony offers an opportunity to consider how gender roles have changed for this vital ritual.
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Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
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1748
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Esther Oppenheim
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New York, British America and the British West Indies (New York City, United States of America)
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1730 and 1818