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Eugène Roger
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
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1646
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These depictions of Jewish women from Adrianople (present day Edirne, Turkey) is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have done his own illustrations. Considered…
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Nicolas de Nicolay
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1585
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz, Georg Paul Nusbiegel
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1748/9
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The houses and rooms of the inhabitants of this most famous city are one or the other of two extremes: the good ones are sumptuous houses at the height of perfection and…
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Moses Almosnino
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1567
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The (foreign) chieftains lie prostrate, saying “Peace.” Not one lifts his head among the Nine Bows.
Libya is captured, while Hatti is pacified.
Canaan is plundered, Ashkelon is carried off, and Gezer…
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Luxor, Egypt
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ca. 1208 BCE
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There’s a marvelous story by Eduardo Stilman about a silver samovar. It caressingly describes the prodigious object—its polished ebony handles, finely carved arabesques, mischievously-turned spigot…
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Edna Aizenberg
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1997
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The Falashas of Ethiopia have attracted considerable attention because of their Judaic religious practice, yet the relationship of their liturgy to normative Judaism remains underdetermined. This…
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Kay Kaufman Shelemay
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1986
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One of the chief aims of anthropology is the study of the mind of man under the varying conditions of race and of environment. The activities of the mind manifest themselves in thoughts and actions…
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Franz Boas
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1901
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The question of family names in general and of Jewish family names in particular is interesting in many ways. Unfortunately, Jewish scholarship has thus far devoted very little attention to this…
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Shmuel Veisenberg
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1929
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The first issue that should have occurred to a European-born, reality-sensitive composer upon immigration to the Land of Israel is: Is the musical…
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Alexander Uriah Boskowicz
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1953