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Paper cuts have been a tradition of Jewish folk art, with the earliest record of one dating to the fourteenth century. Given the widespread availability of paper in Europe by the mid-nineteenth…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1858–1859
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He will surely come with songs of joy, carrying the child, in the full assembly. My friends, wait here for the bridegroom of blood.
He should be coming down the road. Why is the child so late? You…
Contributor:
Joseph Bibas
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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This ewer and basin from Turkey were used to wash hands ritually during the Passover seder. Owned by the Benguiat family, a large and prominent Sephardic family in the Ottoman Empire, the objects…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1845