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Artist Unknown
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Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Augsburg, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1690
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Inasmuch as the members of the mahamad [board of governors] consider it a vile practice among us today for youngsters to strike with…
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The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640
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And I have heard an amazing reason from an old man as to why music was absent from that feast [of King Ahasuerus], and I present it here, with a great number of additions to what I heard. These will…
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Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
16th Century
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May salvation be near, and we be cleansed of great sin. Amen.
I, the undersigned, have witnessed the bad custom practiced among young men on the days of Purim, that in the synagogue during the…
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Moses Bili ben Judah, The Jewish Community of Crete
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Crete, Republic of Venice
(Crete, Greece)
Date:
1545
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All my bones say: O Lord, who is like you?
My palate speaks your praise, O my Rock, my Redeemer, my King;
You bring light to my darkness and bring me out of destruction.
The…
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Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna, Jacob Ibn Tsur
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Fez, Kingdom of Morocco
(Fes, Morocco)
Date:
Beginning of the 18th Century
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No decree can be nullified, but one can be changed by the Cause of causes.
The matters of the fastings and their cry (Esther 9:31)
In the first chapter of tractate…
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Menaḥem Rava
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
16th Century
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Artist Unknown
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
ca. 1850
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Moses Pescarol
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Ferrara, Papal States
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1616
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This Purim tray from the seventeenth century was made in Hamburg, Germany. A fine repoussé piece, its center is adorned with a court scene, complete with a ruler sitting on a raised throne, surrounded…
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Artist Unknown
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Free Imperial City of Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
17th Century
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Andrea Marelli
Places:
Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
1573