Polyglot Bible (Constantinople)

Print of long procession of people on horses and on foot carrying banners and trumpets, from one archway down and across the page to another archway, with German heading and text below.

Celebratory Processional in Prague to Honor Joseph II

A month after the birth of future Emperor Joseph II (March 13, 1741), the Jews of Prague held a festive procession in honor of the happy event. The procession, which was planned and led by the…

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Wood-carving of a man in skullcap examining an object in his hands.

A Jewish Tailor

A Jewish Tailor is one of Mark Antokolski’s earliest sculptures, created while he was still a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The work appeared in an era of liberalization of tsarist…

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This engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites) pictures a Jewish divorce ceremony in Amsterdam, in which the wife is presented with a…

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Celebratory Processional in Prague to Honor Joseph II

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Jewish Divorce Proceedings