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This receipt with ornate Hebrew calligraphy was issued to certify a donation by members of Ferrara’s Jewish community to aid Jews in Jerusalem. The funds were solicited by the rabbi of a yeshiva in…
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
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18th century
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Honored colleagues!
One sole consideration persuades me to accept the very high office to which your vote has appointed me, when dwindling forces barely enable the modest duties of teachers and of…
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Ernesto Nathan
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
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1906
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This eighteenth-century map of Venice includes the ghetto within which the city’s Jews were required to live from 1516 until Napoleon’s conquest of the Republic of Venice in 1797. The Venice ghetto…
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1729
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In the days of Antigonus, in about 3160 of creation, roughly 52 of the second rule of Ptolemy II over…
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Gedaliah Ibn Yaḥya
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Alessandria, Duchy of Milan (Alessandria, Italy)
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1587
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Now I would also like to sing a bit,
With my poor voice,
Of things that have happened recently,
Which everyone ought to know:
Of the plague and pestilence,
That have happened here this time
In the…
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Elye Bokher
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1514
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[…] Among such divergent opinions, poor Iduzza didn’t dare formulate any view on her own.
To the many mysteries of Authority which frightened her there had now been added the word Aryans, which she…
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Elsa Morante
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Rome, Italy
Date:
1974
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This set design by Emanuele Luzzatti is for a performance of Golem at the Teatro La Pergola in Florence, Italy. Several operas were based on the famous legend about the clay figure, the Golem, brought…
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Emanuele Luzzati
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1969