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This postage stamp with an image of King Leopold I of Belgium was the first stamp issued on the European continent.
Contributor:
Jacques Wiener
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Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium)
Date:
1849
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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
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
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1891
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The Book of Esther recounts the story of the rescue of the Jews of Persia from the machinations of the evil vizier Haman, who sought to annihilate them. Thanks to the bravery and cleverness of the…
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Joseph Zvi Geiger
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1893
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Shmuel Schulman’s micrograph is a tribute to Ḥoveve Zion, members of a nineteenth-century Zionist movement that sent pioneers to Palestine to develop settlements funded by Baron Edmond James de…
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Shmuel Schulman
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)
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Early 20th Century
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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
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United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (United Kingdom, United Kingdom)
Date:
1906
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The pen-on-paper Tu tournes lentement, an example of surrealist automatic painting, depicts women and fragmented humanoid shapes in dance-like movement. It was drawn by Paul Păun during World War II…
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Paul Paun
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1943
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This astrological calendar contains a zodiac rota, divided into twelve astrological signs. The rota was one of the authoritative schemata that kabbalists used to map the structure of the sefirot, the…
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Unknown
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ca. 1400–1599
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This map showing tombs in the land of Israel was drawn in Italy by a Jewish scribe and is an example of a “pilgrimage scroll.” Pilgrimage scrolls, also known as itineraries, included visual and…
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Unknown
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16th Century
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Grininke beymelekh (Little Green Trees), no. 1 (Vilna: B. A. Kletzkin, 1914.) The title of this Yiddish children’s journal, the first of the genre to appear regularly, was drawn from the Yiddish poem…
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Zelig Melamed
Date:
1914
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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
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czechia)
Date:
1741