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Page of Aramaic text framed by floral ornament with crown in top center and signatures in Roman alphabet and Spanish writing on bottom.

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Ketubah (Bordeaux)

1747

Print of two scenes: top shows a procession of men in prayer shawls holding branches through a synagogue. Bottom shows a group of people eating at a table in a tabernacle.

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Sukkot Celebrations

Bernard Picart

1724

Print depicting two scenes with French text under frames: top shows women and girls in kitchen looking through cupboards and cleaning the table. Bottom shows eight individuals around a dining table in ornate room with lit fire in fireplace.

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Top: Searching for Hametz; Bottom: Passover Seder Among Sephardic Jews

Bernard Picart

1725

Page of Aramaic text with illustration of pair of hands clasped at top and illustrated vignettes along sides of text depicting wedding scenes, joined by vines and flowers.

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Ketubah (Amsterdam)

Shalom Italia

1648

Page of Aramaic text surrounded by ornate illustrations, including couple under wedding canopy at the top of the page with many well-dressed people around them and two angels flying overhead, and two women on pedestals on either side of the bottom of the page on either side of a wreath with text inside.

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Ketubah (Hamburg)

1690

Room interior with central podium with tall columns and many chandeliers surrounding.

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Gerush Synagogue, Bursa, Turkey

Early 16th Century

Photograph of room with arched stone doorways and central wooden platform.

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Velika Avlija (Old Synagogue), Sarajevo

1581

Tombstone flat on ground of panels of scenes with figures and animals above and below arch-enclosed Hebrew inscription.

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Tombstone of Mordechai Franco Mendes and His Wife Sara Franco Mendes

1687 and 1696

Tombstone with inscription in Hebrew and Portuguese above floral motifs and engraving of hand with an ax reaching out of cloud to chop down tree.

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Tombstone of Rachel Pereira

1721

Manuscript page of Hebrew text in center framed with decorations and figures and scenes including two cherubs holding a crown at top, a king holding a harp, and a man holding censer, both with crowns above their heads, and figures at bottom.

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De Pinto Psalter

Meir Cohen Belinfante | Isaac Siprut

1728

Print portrait of man with curly wig and beard in oval frame, and Latin and Hebrew text below.

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Portrait of Solomon Ayllon (1660/64–1728), Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic Congregations in London and Amsterdam from 1700 to 1728

Jacobus Houbraken

1728

Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text.

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Text of an Excommunication

David Aboab

1745