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De Pinto Psalter
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This decorated psalter was made for Aaron de Joseph de Pinto, a member of the prominent Portuguese Jewish family in Amsterdam. It is a manuscript, copied from a print edition done by David de Castro…

Contributor:

Meir Cohen Belinfante, Isaac Siprut

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer & liturgy, Sephardic, Jewish languages

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Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Manuscript page of Hebrew text in center framed with decorations and figures and scenes including two cherubs holding a crown at top, a king holding a harp, and a man holding censer, both with crowns above their heads, and figures at bottom.
Portrait of Simcha Vaz (1582–1643), painted by her son, Moses Belmonte
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Simcha (Gimar) Belmonte (born Vaz; 1582–1643) was the wife of Jakob Israel Belmonte (a poet, writer, and trader). She and her husband were among the founders of the Jewish community in Amsterdam after…

Contributor:

Moses Belmonte

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1642

Subjects:

Portrait, Women, Sephardic, Dress, Artists

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Portrait with circular border of seated older woman wearing wimple and stern expression and holding book in right hand, with Portuguese and Hebrew text below and around portrait.
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
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This image depicts the interior of the synagogue that served the Beth Israel congregation in Amsterdam. Before 1639, there were three Sephardic congregations in Amsterdam: Beth Jacob (founded possibly…

Contributor:

Jan Veenhuyzen

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1647

Subjects:

Art, Synagogue, Artists, Cities, Sephardic, Architecture

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Cartooning & graphic art, Architecture
Print of building interior with central podium, columns, and second floor balcony.
Ketubah of Isaac de Pinto and Rahel Rovigo
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In 1654, Rahel bat Hannah Rovigo married Isaac ben Abraham de Pinto, a member of a prosperous Jewish family of merchant bankers in Amsterdam. The ketubah (marriage contract), which outlines the…

Contributor:

Shalom Italia

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1654

Subjects:

Ketubot, Marriage, Women, Halakhah, Sephardic, Law

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Law, Legal documents, Cartooning & graphic art
Page of Aramaic text framed by flora and small pictorial scenes with human figures, with linked hands and heart at top center.
Sukkot Celebrations
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Holidays, Sukkot, Synagogue, Food and drink, Sephardic

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Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print of two scenes: top shows a procession of men in prayer shawls holding branches through a synagogue. Bottom shows a group of people eating at a table in a tabernacle.
Top: Searching for Hametz; Bottom: Passover Seder Among Sephardic Jews
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1725

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Food and drink, Family, Sephardic

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print depicting two scenes with French text under frames: top shows women and girls in kitchen looking through cupboards and cleaning the table. Bottom shows eight individuals around a dining table in ornate room with lit fire in fireplace.