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Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories)
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The Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories), a collection of more than two hundred and fifty stories in Yiddish, was popular among Jews in Western and Eastern Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth…

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Unknown

Places:

Rovere, Venice (Roverè Veronese, Italy)

Date:

1585–1590

Subjects:

Yiddish, Anthologies, Writing, Leisure

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Folklore
Single manuscript page with Yiddish text.
Yiddish Book of Customs
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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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Artist Unknown

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Date:

1500

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Ritual & observance, Yiddish, Holidays, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
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 Translation of the Bible
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This manuscript page of Deuteronomy 1:1–7 is from a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Yiddish, from Italy. It is decorated with two storks and an ornate chapter heading with the opening word of the…

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Unknown

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Date:

16th Century

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Translation, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Manuscript page of drawings of bird and plants on top and Yiddish text below.