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Painting of domestic interior showing figures of men and women listening to a man reading.

Guide

Literature and Modernity

1750–1880

Photograph of wasp hive inside cavity of cow's skull.

Guide

Sayings, Riddles, Fables, and Allegories in the Biblical World

Biblical Period

Fragmentary papyrus page of Aramaic writing.

Guide

The Words of Ahiqar

Biblical Period

Page of Hebrew text surrounded by decorative border with four well-dressed figures on top.

Source

Scroll of the Book of Esther

Moses Pescarol

1618

Single manuscript page with Yiddish text.

Source

Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories)

1585–1590

Drawing of window with page of English text over it, about man waiting in synagogue with menorah and candles until monstrous figure arrives.

Source

Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins

Eric A. Kimmel | Trina Schart Hyman

1989

Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text and letter formations.

Source

Compilation of Folk Remedies and Amulets

ca. 1600

Manuscript page with Hebrew text, with some words set apart in rectangular frames, surrounded by border of branches, flowers, and birds, and small illustration of boy and animal with tail in bottom margin.

Source

Maḥzor for the Rite of Carpentras

1540/1

Source

World of Our Fathers

Irving Howe

1976

Source

The Centaur in the Garden

Moacyr Scliar

1980

Source

Perfumes of Carthage

Teresa Porzecanski

1994

Source

Songbird, or Six Folk Songs

Pesach-Elijah Badkhn

1871