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Pirḥe ha-aviv (Spring Flowers)

This small volume which I now present to you, my fellow readers, is an offshoot of the numerous saplings that I have planted for myself over the course of many days, nay years; for ever…

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Manuscript page with Yiddish text and illustrations below of person blowing horn, several people seated with Torah scroll, someone standing with an open book, and a turret with door.

Yiddish Book of Customs

This page illustrating the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is from a Yiddish book of customs from Italy. By the sixteenth century, Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jews were the largest groups of…

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Interior room with ledges, one of which holds a skeleton, and a floor covered with pottery.

Burial Chamber from Ketef Hinnom Cemetery

Shown here is a reconstructed burial chamber from Ketef Hinnom, on exhibit at the Israel Museum. There are ledges along the side and back walls, with low parapets visible along two of the ledges. A…

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