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Der pinkes (cover)
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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…

Contributor:

Shmuel Niger

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Scholarship, Jewish identity, Yiddish, Cities, Education

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy
Page with Yiddish text and simple decorated border.
Open-air Sanctuary in the Samaria Hills
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This drawing is a modern reconstruction of the ground plan of an open-air sanctuary. Situated in northern Israel, it consisted of an enclosure about 65 feet (20 m) in diameter surrounded by stones…

Places:

Samaria, Land of Israel (Samaria, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age I, Early 12th Century BCE

Subjects:

Cities, Sacrifice, Animals, Scholarship

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Plan drawing of open-air building with round enclosure surrounded by stones.
Arad Sanctuary
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The Arad sanctuary today exists in ruins (image on left), and scholars have attempted its reconstruction (right). The sanctuary included a building with a broad hall approximately 35 feet (10.5 m)…

Places:

Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age IIA–IIB, 9th–8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Scholarship, Archaeology, Temple, Cities, Sacrifice

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Religion & Theology
Photograph of ruins of stone buildings.