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Mental Maps depicts mirrored images of a 1938 German railway map made from rubber and pigment. The left panel contains two lines of text that read “North is West” and “[I am imprinting it down…
This poster was published by the Jewish Welfare Board in the United States just prior to the armistice bringing World War I to a halt. The message was to elicit support from Jewish civilians for the…
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To Build a Fire
Measuring
Scalloped Apples
Coffee
Setting the Table
Washing Dishes
This chart displaying the colors of gems and minerals is from A Popular Treatise on Gems and Minerals by Lewis Feuchtwanger, a German Jewish immigrant to the United States, a doctor who was also well…
The first Jewish community was established in Kingston, Jamaica by refugees from Spain and Portugal after 1492. This tombstone in the cemetery of She‘are Shalom Synagogue marks the grave of Abraham…
In 1670, Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community commissioned a new synagogue, which, when finished, was the largest in the world. The master mason Elias Bouman, a non-Jew who had helped design the…
To Freud, all forms of religious observance were foolish and superstitious. His wife Martha, on the other hand, took religion much more seriously, as her grandfather had been a prominent rabbi in…
This rare example of an eighteenth-century American snuff box made of gold may have been made by its goldsmith Myer Myers in honor of the opening of a new Masonic lodge in New York. The cover of the…
A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue was the first Hebrew-language manual printed in North America. Its author Judah Monis, knowing that all undergraduates at Harvard University were required to learn…
This sheet by the calligrapher and scribe Iehudah Machabeu presents samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian, and Latin. It…
