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This gravestone is inscribed in memory of Abraham Cohen Pimentel, who served as rabbi of the Portuguese Synagogue (Esnoga) in Amsterdam, and also as hakham in the Hamburg synagogue. A student of Saul…
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Altona, Habsburg Empire (Altona, Germany)
Date:
1697
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Joseph Karo’s Shulḥan ‘arukh (Set Table)—printed together with the additions of Moses Isserles’s Mapah (Tablecloth) and first published in 1565—was a codification of Jewish law that was easy to use as…
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Joseph Karo, Moses Isserles
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1721/23
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Born to converso parents and baptized as Manoel Dias Soeiro, Menasseh Ben Israel moved as a boy with his family to Amsterdam, where they reverted openly to Judaism. In 1626, he established the first…
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Shalom Italia
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1640–1649
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This illustration of a phlebotomy knife appears in an eighteenth-century Judeo-Arabic medical manuscript. Bloodletting, thought to balance the humors of the body, was an accepted medical treatment at…
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Atzlan ben Abraham al-Karaji
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18th Century
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These pages are from a manuscript, De dificuldade de ourinar (On Difficulty in Urinating), by a Jewish physician and surgeon in Amsterdam, Samuel de Leon Benavente (1643–1722). He was known for his…
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Samuel Benavente
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1699
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This is the title page of Disputatio medica inauguralis, de pleuritide (Inaugural Medical Discourse: On Pleuritide), David Pina’s doctoral dissertation at the University of Leiden. Pina was a…
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David Pina
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1678
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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…
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Unknown
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1718/19 and 1732/33
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Jacob Mahler by the University of Padua, Italy. Mahler, born in Bingen-on-Rhine, Germany, studied medicine and philosophy, and in 1695 was awarded a…
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1695
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This illustration of the (Aristotelian) cosmos appears in an eighteenth-century manuscript of Neḥmad ve-na‘im (Nice and Pleasant), David Ganz’s posthumously published book on astronomy.
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David Ganz
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Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
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18th Century
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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…
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Iehudah Machabeu
Places:
La Rochelle, France
Date:
1655