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Memories of a Childhood Spent in Ottoman Bulgaria
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I understood very early that life is a serious business. I do not remember committing any of those childish pranks that everyone keeps in his distant memory. From the age of four I was sent to the mel…

Contributor:

Gabriel Arié

Places:

Davos, Switzerland

Date:

1906

Subjects:

Adolescence, Education, Jewish languages, Piety, Family

Categories:

Literature, Memoirs & Diaries, Reportage
Synagogue Judaica
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This is the frontispiece of a 1661 edition of Synagoga Judaica, a study of the customs and culture of German Jewry by Christian Hebraist, and polemical critic of Judaism, Johannes Buxtorf the Elder…

Contributor:

Johannes Buxtorf

Places:

Basel, Switzerland

Date:

1661

Subjects:

Print, Christian-Jewish relations, Education, Circumcision, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Printed page with Latin text in the center, surrounded by two images, the top of people sitting in front of a teacher and board with Hebrew letters on it, and the bottom of men sitting around a baby.