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Born in Livorno, Tuscany, in 1656, Hezekiah ben David de Silva was a scholar best known for his halakhic work Peri ḥadash (New Fruit). De Silva studied in Syria and later headed a yeshiva in Jerusalem…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1690
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This bronze plaque, one of the many decorative art objects produced in the workshops of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah, whose name is…
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Boris Schatz
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1911