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This silver plate from Padua, Italy, was made for use in the brit milah, the circumcision ritual celebrated when a baby boy is eight days old. In this detailed depiction of the ritual, the baby seems…
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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This is an early printed amulet from Tunis, containing texts and symbols commonly used on such talismans printed in North Africa. However, this example is somewhat unusual, as the Shir le-ma‘alot psal…
Contributor:
Ya‘akov ben Elijah Gaj
Places:
Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
Early 20th Century
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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…
Contributor:
Nachman ha-Kohen Bialsker
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Bielsk, Russian Empire (Bielsk Podlaski, Poland)
Date:
1862
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The sunset grew bold: it insisted on staying
In the Red Sea at night, when the innocent pink
Young fawns delicately make their way
Downhill to the palace of water to drink.
They leave their silken…
Contributor:
Abraham Sutzkever
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949