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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
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1724
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985. The ancient custom of kaparot [having a chicken slaughtered after symbolically transferring one’s sins to it] is well known; I will only write that my custom is also to say, based on the Maharal…
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Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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17th Century
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And this, too, must be said, that the main reason for establishing the days of Hanukkah is because they [the Jews] were victorious over the Greeks. However, it did not appear that the victory was…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1600
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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21. On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, we pray as on the first day, except that the liturgical poems are different. [ . . . ]
22. And the Musaf service is as on the first day, except that we do not…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres, Joseph Kosman
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1718
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17th Century
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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
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1724
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This ritual spice container is thought to have been made in Frankfurt am Main. It is decorated to represent a four-story tower with brick walls. At its top, two short spires flank a central, taller…
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Artist Unknown
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Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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ca. 1550
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1574