Polyglot Bible (Constantinople)

Manuscript page with illustration of woman drawing water from a well as another individual stands behind her with a pitcher of water on head, and Hebrew text above.

A Woman Drawing Water from a Well

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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Sheyris Yisroel (Remnant of Israel)

The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in…

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Photograph of wooden building exterior with several layers of roofs.

Synagogue (Gwoździec, Poland)

The wooden synagogue in Gwoździec, eastern Galicia (modern-day Poland), was one of more than two hundred wooden synagogues that existed in Poland before World War II. Wooden synagogues were a…

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Polyglot Bible (Constantinople)

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