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This rare example of an eighteenth-century American snuff box made of gold may have been made by its goldsmith Myer Myers in honor of the opening of a new Masonic lodge in New York. The cover of the…
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Myer Myers
Places:
New York, British America and the British West Indies (New York City, United States of America)
Date:
1770
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The ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, it outlines the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and is written in Aramaic. This printed ketubah created by…
Contributor:
Zemah Davidsohn
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1863
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“Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. The religious sense prays as the intellectual organ thinks.” Prayer, to carry this saying of Novalis a step further, is a significant…
Contributor:
Nahum N. Glatzer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1947