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This kiddush cup and wine carafe by the master glass engraver Daniel Henriques de Castro displays his delicate technique, known as stippling. Though it is most common for kiddush cups, used for the…
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Daniel Henriques de Castro
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
ca. 1860
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The Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, is home to the second-oldest congregation in the United States. As Sephardic Jews began emigrating from the Caribbean to colonial America in the…
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Peter Harrison
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Newport, British America and the British West Indies (Newport, United States of America)
Date:
1763
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On this silver Purim cup from Augsburg, Germany, a quotation from the Talmud (b. Megillah 7b) inscribed around the rim advises its bearer to drink in celebration of Purim until unable to distinguish…
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Artist Unknown
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Augsburg, Holy Roman Empire (Augsburg, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1690
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This Hanukkah lamp from Frankfurt am Main, like the earliest known silver Hanukkah lamps made in Germany, is shaped like a chest and resembles inkwells of the period. This one is relatively…
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Caspar Birckenholtz
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1661–1690
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These two lecterns are from Jablonów in the southern part of eastern Galicia and may have graced the town’s wooden synagogue, which was built as early as 1674. Carved from wood, and standing on two…
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Artist Unknown
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Jabłonów, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Yablonov, Ukraine)
Date:
17th or 18th Century
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This brass Hanukkah lamp is thought to have been used in the First Mill Street Synagogue of Congregation Shearith Israel, which opened in New York in 1730 and was located on present-day South William…
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Artist Unknown
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New York City, British America and the British West Indies (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1730
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The embroidered structure in the center of this silk Torah ark curtain is thought to be a loose representation of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, with its six minarets and entryway stairs. A somewhat…
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Artist Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1735
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Inscriptions on the stems of these silver Torah finials indicate that they were made by Joseph Arvatz and Chaim Maman in Morocco, and inscriptions on their rims state that they were owned by Rabbi…
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Joseph Arvatz, Chaim Maman
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1740
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This silver beaker is one of two commissioned by the Burial Society of Worms in the eighteenth century. Beakers were used at the ceremony inducting members into the society at its annual banquet…
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Johann Conrad Weiss
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1711/1712
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The Dutch Sewing School is from a period in Max Liebermann’s career when Dutch peasants were a common subject in his work. The sewing school seen here was in an orphanage in Amsterdam. While he…
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Max Liebermann
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1876