Scuola Italiana, Venice

Manuscript page with Hebrew text of illustrations of figures outside a castle on bottom and a man and woman separated by sword on the right.

Chantilly Haggadah

This Haggadah was produced in the city of Candia (now Heraklion), on the island of Crete, which was at the time under Venetian rule. The Haggadah follows the Passover seder according to the Romaniote…

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Print of couple under canopy with crowd of people looking, in front of building exterior with tall windows.

Wedding Ceremony

Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz’s Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden, sonderlich derer in Deutschland (Religious Constitution of Today’s Jews, Especially Those in Germany), published in…

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Facing-page print with Hebrew text on left page and engraving on right page depicting man seated on a throne with lions and people below him and cherubs holding crown above him, and Hebrew inscription, and illustration below of men seated around a table with a crowd of people beyond.

Tikun keriyah le-kol laylah ve-yom (Supplications for Every Day and Night)

The frontispiece of this book of penitential prayers, printed in Amsterdam by David de Castro Tartas, proclaims the pro-Sabbatean beliefs that were then widespread in the Amsterdam Jewish community…

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