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Portrait of David Nieto
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This portrait of David Nieto was printed by James McArdell after a painting by David Esteves, London. David Nieto studied medicine in Padua and initially served as physician, preacher, and rabbinic…

Contributor:

James McArdell, David Esteves

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

ca. 1745–1765

Subjects:

Portrait, Profession, Rabbis, Philosophy, Medicine

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Portrait of a bearded man seated at desk wearing a wig and collar, holding a quill in his right hand and turning the page of book with his left hand, with bookshelf in background and globe and inkwell on desk.
Sefer goralot
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These illustrated pages are from a manuscript copy of Sefer goralot (Book of Lots), a treatise on geomancy, which was a method of divination popular in the medieval world. The text was attributed…

Contributor:

Abraham Ibn Ezra

Places:

Córdoba, Spanish Empire (Córdoba, Spain)

Date:

18th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Astrology, Philosophy, Arabic, Translation

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Magical Texts, Print & Book Culture
Facing-page manuscript with illustration of fish and spiral design with Hebrew list below on right side, and illustrations of ram's head and bull's head with Hebrew lists below on left page.
Lavater and Lessing Visit Moses Mendelssohn, 1856
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This painting portrays an imagined meeting of Jewish scholar Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), and the Swiss theologian Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801)…

Contributor:

Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1856

Subjects:

Enlightenment, Philosophy, Leisure, Christian-Jewish relations, Conversion

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of two men seated at a table with another man standing behind them, and woman in doorway carrying tray of tea.
Herzl Observing the Rhine from the Balcony of Hotel Les Trois Rois during the Fifth Zionist Congress in 1901 in Basel
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Ephraim Lilien’s photograph of Theodor Herzl, considered the father of modern political Zionism, depicts him staring off into the distance like a lonely prophet. The congress in Basel in 1901 was the…

Contributor:

Ephraim Moses Lilien

Places:

Basel, Switzerland

Date:

1901

Subjects:

Portrait, Philosophy, Jewish identity, Cities, Zionism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of man leaning over a bridge.