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Angels in America

Tony Kushner

1992

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The Way to the Cats

Yehoshua Kenaz

1991

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In the Subway I

A. Leyeles

1918

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From “The Proverbs of Solomon”

Biblical Period

Bronze mortar decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked with the Hebrew letters mem and resh.

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Bronze Physician’s Mortar

Servius de Levis

16th Century

Illustration of bloodletting knife on right side of a manuscript page, with Judeo-Arabic text surrounding.

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Phlebotomy knife

Atzlan ben Abraham al-Karaji

18th Century

Facing-page manuscript with illustration on right page depicting individual lying on operating table with two men in curly wigs in coats and breeches holding down his wrists and feet and another with his hand on patient's shoulders; and left page with Portuguese text only.

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Surgical Illustration

Samuel Benavente

1699

Photograph featuring four young girls holding onto each other's shoulders walking down the stairs in a train with two older women in the front and back.

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Blind Women, Egypt

Lori Grinker

1995

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Sefer ha-zikhronot (The Book of Memories)

1685

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Ma’amarim bi-refu’ah (Chapters on Healing)

Raphael Mordechai Malki

Last Quarter of the 17th Century

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Sefer ha-ḥezyonot (The Book of Visions): The Soul of the Gentile

Ḥayim Vital

16th Century

Facing-page manuscript with left-hand side of three framed images surrounded by flora and birds: the top image of two men holding a book and cup, the middle of man with curly hair and collar, and bottom of a bird; and right-hand side of Latin text surrounded by decorative flora.

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Otsar ha-ḥayim (Treasury of Life)

Jacob Tsahalon

1683