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Die Erschaffung des Menschen (The Creation of Man)
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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

Subjects:

Art, Bible, Ecology, Angels, demons & deities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Illustration of angels amongst flowers with shofar and biblical lyre.
Akedah Story
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The caption on the top image reads: The binding of Isaac [is] today; remember his seed with mercy. The top labels, right to left: Abraham; Isaac; angel; fire; ram. The caption in the middle picture…

Contributor:

Moshe Mizrachi

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Art, Bible, Angels, demons & deities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Illustration in three horizontal panels, with Hebrew text running along the border and labeling the illustrations, which include two figures, an angel, fire, and ram at top of page; donkey, trees, and several figures in the center; and two figures in front of a line of ten camels at the bottom.
Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch (scribe and artist), Psalms
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This elaborately decorated title page is from a book of Psalms created by the scribe Nathan ben Samson in Gross Meseritsch, Moravia (today Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic). On the left is Aaron in his…

Contributor:

Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch

Places:

Gross Meseritsch, Holy Roman Empire (Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic)

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Artists, Art

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Printed page with Hebrew and Yiddish text in center flanked by two figures with decorative borders at top and bottom, and text wrapping around margins of page.