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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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Lodovico Furlanetto
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1729
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Tombstone of Shifra Tamari (d. 1565), Padua, Italy. In the early modern period, most Jewish tombstones in Italy were Italian Renaissance in style. Hebrew epitaph poems, like the one on this gravestone…
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1565
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The Scuola Levantina (Levantine Synagogue), a Sephardic synagogue built in 1541, was restored in the late seventeenth century. The bimah is thought to have been carved by Andrea Brustolon, famed for…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1541
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This Torah ark curtain from Venice was made by Simḥah, the wife of Menachem Levi Meshuallami, a member of a prominent family in the Venice ghetto. It is embroidered in silk and silk-metallic thread…
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Wife of Menahem Levi Meshullami Simḥah
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1680/1
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This silver Torah crown from Padua, Italy, is decorated with images of the tablets of law, incense utensils, the ark of the covenant,
and the headdress of the high priest.
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
17th–18th Century
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This is the title page of Me‘on ha-sho’alim (L’abitacolo degli oranti; Abode of the Supplicants), by the poet and translator Devorà Ascarelli, a member of the Catalan community in Rome. Me‘on ha-sho…
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Devorà Ascarelli
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1601
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Kehunat Avraham (The Priesthood of Abraham), published in Venice in 1719, is an interpretation and retelling of sections from the book of Psalms in verse. This portrait of its author, Abraham ben…
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Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1719
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This depiction of a Jewish doctor is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have also created the illustrations in the book. Considered at the time a key source of…
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Nicolas de Nicolay
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1568
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This bronze physician’s mortar from Verona, Italy, is decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked by the Hebrew letters mem and resh, likely the initials for the Hebrew term for “physician’s…
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Servius de Levis
Places:
Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
16th Century
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Contributor:
Salamone de Rossi
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1622/23