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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
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1624
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Rembrandt van Rijn lived in the part of Amsterdam where the artists’ guild (St. Luke’s Guild) was located. By coincidence, it was also home to a number of Jews. Rembrandt’s artworks attest to an…
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Rembrandt van Rijn
Date:
1647
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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
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This engraving depicting a tailor’s workshop was printed along with others portraying Jewish immigrant life in London, England, in the Illustrated London News in 1891.
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Ellen Gertrude Cohen
Places:
London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1891
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This drawing of a gathering hosted by Dr. Hermann Adler, the chief rabbi of Great Britain (wearing a yarmulke and standing at right), represents the adaptation of the British custom of high tea to the…
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Solomon J. Solomon
Places:
United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (United Kingdom, United Kingdom)
Date:
1906
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A month after the birth of future Emperor Joseph II (March 13, 1741), the Jews of Prague held a festive procession in honor of the happy event. The procession, which was planned and led by the…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czechia)
Date:
1741
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This depiction of a Jewish merchant is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have also done his own illustrations. Considered at the time a key source of…
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Nicolas de Nicolay
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1585
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The Jewish couple in Frankfurt am Main depicted here are wearing distinctive clothing that would have clearly identified them as Jews: the man’s collar, hat, and cloak, and the woman’s ruff and winged…
Contributor:
Caspar Luyken
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1703
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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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Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1572
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This is one of three known portraits of Jacob Judah Leon Templo, who was famous for his elaborate wooden model of the Temple of Solomon, which he turned into a traveling exhibition and showed and…
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Shalom Italia
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640–1649