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They have given you French names
and made you captive, my rugged
troublesome compatriots;
your splendid beards, are epicene,
plaster white
and your angers
unclothed with Palestinian hills quite lost…
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Irving Layton
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1956
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There have traditionally been two different interpretations of the biblical Song of Songs. It can be read as an erotic love poem or as a poem of yearning for the Land of Israel. Ze’ev Raban’s…
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Ze’ev Raban
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1911–1918
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The caption on the top image reads: The binding of Isaac [is] today; remember his seed with mercy. The top labels, right to left: Abraham; Isaac; angel; fire; ram. The caption in the middle picture…
Contributor:
Moshe Mizrachi
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1913
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This repoussé gold wedding ring inlaid with a diamond represents the iconic Bezalel style: a fusion of biblical motifs, early twentieth-century European art trends such as Jugendstil, and Eastern…
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Ze’ev Raban
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1914
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An illustration by El Lissitzky from Chaim Nahman Bialik’s Shloyme ha-melekh (King Solomon), from an issue of the Hebrew journal Shtilim (Saplings) that was printed in 1917 in Moscow, two days before…
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El Lissitzky
Date:
1917
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This elaborately decorated title page is from a book of Psalms created by the scribe Nathan ben Samson in Gross Meseritsch, Moravia (today Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic). On the left is Aaron in his…
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Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch
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Gross Meseritsch, Holy Roman Empire (Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic)
Date:
1728
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This map, in a manuscript copy of Be’er mayim ḥayim (A Spring of Living Water), a commentary on Rashi published in Worms or Friedberg in the late fifteenth or sixteenth century, is based on Rashi’s…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
Date:
Late 15th or 16th Century
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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…
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Pinchas (Phineas) ben Avraham Halevi
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Halberstadt, Holy Roman Empire (Halbe Metze, Germany)
Date:
1716
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Since the law prohibits one, in no uncertain terms, from depicting figures, the question one may ask is how Jews have had all manner of paintings in their homes? And it is not enough to say that only…
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Moses Raphael d’Aguilar
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
17th Century
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View of “The Liberation of G-d,” part of an installation titled Trilogy and Epilogue, in which Helène Aylon highlights misogynist passages in the Hebrew Bible and other canonical Jewish religious…
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Helène Aylon
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1996