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Prospectus (from Stybel’s Publishing House)
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Edited by David Frishman and published by Stybel

Contributor:

Avraham Stybel

Places:

Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Writing, Artists, Translation, Art, Scholarship

Categories:

Political Culture, Lists & catalogues
Multilingual Exemplar Leaf
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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…

Contributor:

Iehudah Machabeu

Places:

La Rochelle, France

Date:

1655

Subjects:

Language & linguistics, Jewish languages, Scribal culture, Education, Scholarship

Categories:

Language & Linguistics, Lists & catalogues
Decorative page of birds, flowers, and rectangular sections of different scripts.
The Shtetls of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Period of Reconstruction
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The Age Composition of the Population in the Researched ShtetlekhThe problem of organizing the work resources correctly and rationally is closely connected to the age composition of the population…

Contributor:

Y. Osherovich

Places:

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Belarus)

Date:

1932

Subjects:

Demographics, Shtetl, Socialism, Scholarship, Politics

Categories:

Anthologies, Lists & catalogues
Book Acquisitions of the ‘Ets Haim Yeshiva for the Years 1718/9 and 1732/33
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1718/19 and 1732/33

Subjects:

Libraries, Scholarship, Education, Jewish quarters, Language & linguistics

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Lists & catalogues, Print & book culture
Manuscript page with Portuguese text.