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The Order of Grace after Meals
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This page from a birkon (Grace after Meals) is an example of the work of Aaron Wolf Herlingen (Aaron Schreiber), a prominent eighteenth-century scribe and artist known for his illustrated Grace after…

Contributor:

Aaron Wolff Herlingen of Gewitsch

Places:

Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer, Blessings & curses, Food and drink

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Food & drink
Manuscript page of Hebrew text with illustration of woman sitting on bed holding a book by candlelight.
The Death of the Tavern Keeper’s Wife
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With every stone that was set in the new barn, another drop of life seemed to ebb from the wife of the randar or tavern keeper. When she looked out at the building, she often said that she would not…

Contributor:

Leopold Kompert

Places:

Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)

Date:

1848

Subjects:

Economic life, Death, Christian-Jewish relations, Family, Food and drink

Categories:

Literature, Fiction