Torah Curtain

Silver amulet typical of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian Jewish homes. This example from Venice is unusual in that it contains an unidentified family coat of arms whose main feature is a…

The philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896) was the leading benefactor of world Jewry in his time. He established the Baron de Hirsch Fund to assist immigrants to the United States and…

This printed amulet to protect a woman in childbirth features a central scene depicting Adam and Eve and several animals in the Garden of Eden, with a snake coiled around the forbidden “tree of…