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Prayer book
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This siddur from Greece contains the prayers of the Romaniote (Greek-speaking Jewish) community of the eastern Mediterranean. It is open at a piyyut (liturgical poem) called “God’s Beloved Daughter,”…

Contributor:

Joseph ben Ḥayim de Vitali

Places:

Ottoman Empire (Aitoloakarnania, Greece)

Date:

1528

Subjects:

Print, Prayer, Writing, Illuminated manuscripts, Romaniote

Categories:

History, Visual & Material Culture, Prayer & Liturgy
Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text on left-hand page and image of archway with decorative border on right-hand page.
Book of Prayers for the Gravediggers Society
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This illustration from a book of prayers for the Jewish Gravediggers Society depicts the cycle of life. Figures of men and women in pairs ascend and descend the staircase, progressing from youth to…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1740

Subjects:

Print, Prayer, Cemetery, Burial society, Mourning

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Prayer & Liturgy
Print of multi-leveled platform with couples standing on each tier, with Hebrew text and many gravestones and figures beneath the platform, and two trees above the platform with scenes of many figures inside.
Tikun li-kro’ laylah va-yom (A Tikkun to Read Day and Night)
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The frontispiece of this book of penitential prayers published in Amsterdam, Tikun li-kro’ laylah va-yom (A Tikkun to Read Day and Night) has a three-tiered illustration. The top level depicts Moses…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1666

Subjects:

Print, Prayer, Shavuot, Hoshana Rabbah, Messianism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Prayer & Liturgy, Print & Book Culture
Print of man holding up tablets on mountain before crowd of people on top of page, people around long table in the middle of the page, Hebrew title in center, and people sitting around round table on the bottom of page.
Igerot Shadal (Letters of Samuel David Luzzatto)
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I am a friend to all lovers of Torah and wisdom and my only desire and my complete salvation rest in disseminating the sources of the Torah in order that the earth will be full of the knowledge of God…

Contributor:

Samuel David Luzzatto

Places:

Padua, Austrian Empire (Padova, Italy)

Date:

1851

Subjects:

Prayer, Print, Diaspora, Ritual & observance, Scholarship

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters