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David Tevele Schiff (d. 1791) was the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1765 until his death. At the time of his appointment, the rabbi of the Great Synagogue was also considered to be the…
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Martha Isaacs
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1765
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Paper cuts have been a tradition of Jewish folk art, with the earliest record of one dating to the fourteenth century. Given the widespread availability of paper in Europe by the mid-nineteenth…
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Moses Michael Rosenboim
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Schönlanke, Kingdom of Prussia (Trzcianka, Poland)
Date:
1848
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In 1860, the Austrian Jewish community commissioned a medal of appreciation for Franz Joseph to commemorate the emperor’s granting to Jews the right to own property within the Austrian Empire. On the…
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Wenzel Seidan
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Paris, Second French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1860
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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 one, made in Bucharest, Romania…
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Artist Unknown
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Bucharest, Austrian Empire (Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1859
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Jewish Tailor is one of Mark Antokolski’s earliest sculptures, created while he was still a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The work appeared in an era of liberalization of tsarist…
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Mark Antokolski
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1864
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This paper cut, commemorating the anniversary of a date of death, originates from Galicia.
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Artist Unknown
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Austro-Hungarian Empire (Galicia, Ukraine)
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1867–1880