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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.Born in Pittsburgh, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was brought up in Oakland, California. She graduated from Radcliffe College in…
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Photographer Unknown
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Venice, Kingdom of Italy (Venice, Italy)
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1908
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This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…
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Early 16th Century
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This bronze physician’s mortar from Verona, Italy, is decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked by the Hebrew letters mem and resh, likely the initials for the Hebrew term for “physician’s…
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Servius de Levis
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Verona, Venice (Verona, Italy)
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16th Century
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This astrolabe, an astronomical instrument, from the sixteenth century is inscribed in Hebrew characters.
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ca. 1550
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Kabbalist Elijah Menaḥem ben Abba Mari Ḥalfan constructed this diagram, now stained and torn, with the assistance of his tutor Abraham Sarfati. It depicts the sefirotic system and includes Ḥalfan’s…
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Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1533
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This is a technical diagram from Joseph Delmedigo’s Sefer Elim (Book of Elim), a scientific and philosophical work published by Menasseh Ben Israel.
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Menasseh Ben Israel, Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1629
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This dictionary of maritime terms, a hand-written manuscript, includes definitions in Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
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David Franco Mendes
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1780
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Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, composed by the Muslim philosopher Abū Bakr ibn Tufayl al-Qaysi (1110–1185), relates the story of Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān, literally “Alive, son of Awake,” as he grows up alone on a deserted…
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Solomon Norzi
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1527
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Der pinkes (The Book of Records, or The Annals) appropriated the term for the old-fashioned record book of a Jewish community or institution to name a very new phenomenon: the first “annual for the…
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Shmuel Niger
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1913
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This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…
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Lublin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)
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1552