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Illustrated folk depiction of the story of Purim by Moshe Mizrachi (Jerusalem: Monsohn, 1902). The top panels depict the villain of the story, Haman, leading the hero Mordechai on a horse and the…
Contributor:
Moshe Mizrachi
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1902
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The Kinah [Lament] in Honor of Those Who Died in the Earthquake
Wail O [professional female] mourners for the suffering of our death.
The earth trembled with the earthquakes. We lost young and old…
Contributor:
Eliezer Farḥi
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1909
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Die Erschaffung des Menschen (The Creation of Man) is an illustration by Ephraim Moses Lilien for the 1902 German translation of the Yiddish poems of Morris Rosenfeld, Lieder des Ghetto (Songs of the…
Contributor:
Ephraim Moses Lilien
Places:
Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1902
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Bronze bowl with musicians, Cyprus, late 9th or early 8th century BCE. The engraved scene shows musicians and dancers. In this bronze bowl, five inches in diameter, three female musicians are playing…
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Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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This synagogue, located in Carpentras, in Provence, was built in 1367 but went through serious repairs and was remodeled between 1741 and 1744 by a local civil engineer Antoine D’Allemand, in the…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Carpentras, France
Date:
1741–1744
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In reference to the deceased’s name, the central verse fragment on this monument reads “And Mordechai came before the king . . .” (Esther 8:1), and the top panel contains a low relief of a richly clad…
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)
Date:
1716
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Rachel Soares Pereira, who died in 1721 at the age of twenty-four, was married to Isaac Pereira. Floral motifs decorate the top of her gravestone, while the bottom panel contains a relief of a hand…
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Kingston, British America and the British West Indies (Kingston, Jamaica)
Date:
1721
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This Torah ark curtain from Gördes, Turkey, features an archway flanked on either side with double columns and a hanging lamp, a motif common to both Islamic prayer rugs and mats and Ottoman Torah ark…
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Artist Unknown
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Gördes, Ottoman Empire (Gördes, Turkey)
Date:
Late 18th–Early 19th Century
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This Torah binder, made for boys at birth and later brought by young men as a symbol of participation in the synagogue, illustrates the fixed nature of traditional gender expectations.
Contributor:
Koppel ben Moses Heller
Places:
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1814
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This remarkable illustration is at the same time a shiviti—traditionally, a decorative plaque bearing the verse: “I am ever mindful of the Lord’s presence”—and a topographic map of the land of Israel…
Contributor:
Moses Ganbash
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1838–1839