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This dictionary of maritime terms, a hand-written manuscript, includes definitions in Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
Contributor:
David Franco Mendes
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1780
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This manuscript copy of a prayer book, containing prayers and hymns for the Sephardic community of Amsterdam, was written out by David Mendes Franco. It shows David dancing before God and his…
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David Franco Mendes
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1792
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The purpose of the Torah crown is visually to augment the status of the Torah scroll, emphasizing its importance and centrality to Jewish life. These magnificent silver ornaments are placed over the…
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Wilhelmus Angenendt
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1809
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Dearest Kitty,
Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters…
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Anne Frank
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Amsterdam, Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1944
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This is the book of the generations/children of man, those that were born by my hands among the Hebrew women. I came to them, I the midwife, for they are vital [Exodus 1:15–19] and give birth to a son…
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Roza
Places:
Groningen, Dutch Republic (Groningen, Netherlands)
Netherlands
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1794–1832
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In 1670, Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community commissioned a new synagogue, which, when finished, was the largest in the world. The master mason Elias Bouman, a non-Jew who had helped design the…
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Adolf van der Laan
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1710
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This depiction of a Polish Jew first appeared in a book, Neu-eröffnete Welt-Galleria (New Gallery of the World), published in Nuremberg in 1703. Its 101 plates by Caspar Luyken included portraits of…
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1703
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This Purim charity plate was made in Dordrecht in the Netherlands between 1590 and 1611. It was used by Jews living in The Hague.
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Artist Unknown
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Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (Dordrecht, Netherlands)
Date:
1590–1611
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The rhymed Hebrew inscription below the picture of Yeḥiel Mikhel ben Nathan of Lublin notes that he had formerly been a cantor in Lublin and is presently serving in that role in Amsterdam, in 1699…
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Pieter van den Berge
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Dutch Republic (Netherlands)
Date:
1699
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This engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites) pictures a Jewish divorce ceremony in Amsterdam, in which the wife is presented with a…
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Jan Luyken
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1683