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Although few examples of the work of embroiderer Jacob Koppel Gans remain, he is best known for this Torah ark curtain and valance, dating to 1772 or 1773, made of velvet and embroidered with metallic…
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Jacob Koppel Gans
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Holy Roman Empire (Bavaria, Germany)
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1772–1773
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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer (1698–1738) was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Carl Alexander. Economic reforms enacted by Carl Alexander (and informed by Oppenheimer…
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Artist Unknown
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Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)
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1738
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Born in Eisenstadt (in Burgenland) and educated in Mattersdorf and Breslau, Akiva Eger (1761-1837) was a prominent rabbinic and halakhic leader. After living in Lissa, Prussia, he served as rabbi in…
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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Early 19th Century
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Theresa Concordia Mengs painted this self-portrait with pastels, her preferred medium, when she was about twenty years old, a few years after her family moved from Dresden to Rome.
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Theresa Concordia Mengs
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Dresden, Holy Roman Empire (Dresden, Germany)
Date:
1745
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One of Charlotte von Rothschild’s most outstanding works is the only known nineteenth-century Hebrew manuscript to have been illuminated by a woman.
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Charlotte von Rothschild
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Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1842
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The twelve-volume “Bermann Talmud'' was financed by the Court Jew Behrend Lehmann (Issachar Bermann Segal), printed in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, by Michael Gottschalk, and published by John…
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Behrend Lehmann
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1697–99
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But I want to go on recounting how the Prague movement developed, and what made the revolution, which brought so many impressive, great, and noble things to light everywhere, made everything in Prague…
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Moritz Hartmann
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Stuttgart, German Empire (Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1874
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Designed in the German neoclassical style, the Wörlitz synagogue was modeled on Rome’s Temple of Vesta, featuring a circular building with a conical roof. It was commissioned by Prince Leopold…
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff
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Wörlitz, Holy Roman Empire (Wörlitz, Germany)
Date:
1789–1790