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[A coffee-houseFerrando, Don Alfonso and Guglielmo]No. i TrioFerrandoMy Dorabella couldn’tDo such a thing:Heaven made herAs faithful as she’s fair.GuglielmoFiordiligi simplyCouldn…
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Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1790
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Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1741
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May He Who blessed our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Moses and Aaron, David and Solomon, bless this entire holy congregation together with all the holy congregations; they and their wives, their…
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Unknown
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1724
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This seventeenth-century silver repoussé and partly gilt Torah shield from Germany is inlaid with semi-precious stones. In the center of the shield appear the ten commandments in a Hebrew inscription…
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Artist Unknown
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17th Century
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Rules and regulations of Talmud Torah, now consolidated, and the general council of our community of Hamburg, whereby the members of the general council shall elect as parnasim (community leaders)…
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The Portuguese Jewish Community of Hamburg
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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1653
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This is an image of the title page of the first printing of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon (The Book of Victory). The book was first published in Altdorf in 1644 by the priest Theodore…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan
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Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Holy Roman Empire (Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany)
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Late 14th to early 15th Century
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A scion from Portugal by the name of Solomon Molkho sprouted forth from the trunk of Israel [see Isaiah 11:1] and spent his youth among the scribes of the king—where they had been scattered since the…
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Solomon Molkho
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1531/32
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This amulet was presented by members of the Jewish community of Prague to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. At its center sits a seven-branched menorah surrounded by a prayer on Rudolf’s behalf…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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This is the story of what happened to Rabbi Simeon the Great, who lived in Mayence on the Rhine. Now Rabbi Simeon, he had three big mirrors hanging in his home. And in these mirrors…
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Jacob Pollak
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Late 16th Century