Faces decorating a siddur

Bronze amulet with decorative border and Hebrew inscription.

Bronze, Cast, and Gilt Amulet

This cast and gilded bronze amulet from Italy includes a pair of dolphins as a design element. It is inscribed in Hebrew: “May no evil grieve you.”

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Page of Aramaic text of border decorated with flowers and birds, cherubs holding banner at top, and human figures in upper corners.

Ketubah (Bayonne)

This ketubah (marriage contract), was signed in Bayonne, France, whose Jewish community originated with New Christians from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth century. It marks the wedding of Isaac…

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Drawing of men, wearing hats, standing in a line. Yiddish text appears above and below them.

Unemployed Yiddish Writers

The writers of the radical press (also) have the full right to life, to be free, and to seek their fortune in—a bread line.

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Faces decorating a siddur

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