Bronze Physician’s Mortar

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.

Surgical Illustration

These pages are from a manuscript, De dificuldade de ourinar (On Difficulty in Urinating), by a Jewish physician and surgeon in Amsterdam, Samuel de Leon Benavente (1643–1722). He was known for his…

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Poster featuring soldier raising gun in the air wearing a helmet with Star of David, with his left arm around a rabbi holding Torah, two sad women in the foreground holding a child, another man to the left in handcuffs, and English writing on the bottom.

We Will Never Die! Constitution Hall, Washington D.C., poster

In 1942, Arthur Szyk produced this poster, called Tears of Rage, for a series of pageants mounted by Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht and militant Zionist leader Peter Bergson to protest inaction…

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Lamentation for Those Who Perished in the Abriyah Earthquake

The Kinah [Lament] in Honor of Those Who Died in the Earthquake Wail O [professional female] mourners for the suffering of our death. The earth trembled with the earthquakes. We lost young and old…

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We Will Never Die! Constitution Hall, Washington D.C., poster

Lamentation for Those Who Perished in the Abriyah Earthquake