A Boy's Bar Mitzvah Coat from Bukhara

Page of Hebrew and Italian text framed by floral motifs and three women at the top: one with drawing tool and Zodiac symbols, one with two babies, and one holding sword.

Wedding Riddle

This wedding riddle from Italy is written in Hebrew and Judeo-Italian. Wedding songs, sometimes performed by professional jesters, were traditional at Jewish weddings. Some had lyrics in the form of…

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Wall relief showing workers wearing tunics, caps, and sashes, harnessed by shoulder straps to ropes and leaning forward.

Judahite Captives among the Builders of Sennacherib’s Palace

This relief from Sennacherib’s palace shows workers rebuilding Nineveh, harnessed by shoulder straps to ropes by which they haul a large bull colossus toward the palace. Workers from various places…

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Acordos (Regulations): On Synagogue Behavior

In the name of the blessed God. By virtue of the Regulation made and published on the 18th of Sivan, Yr: 5471 [1711], holding those [boys] of the age of 16 years subject to the orders of the…

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A Boy's Bar Mitzvah Coat from Bukhara

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