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This gravestone in the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Netherlands (est. 1614), that of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam, is inscribed in memory of Mordechai Franco Mendes (d…
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Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Dutch Republic (Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands)
Date:
1687 and 1696
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These four etchings were made by Rembrandt van Rijn for Menasseh Ben Israel’s book, Piedra Gloriosa (Glorious Stone), a messianic treatise. Clockwise from upper left, they illustrate the biblical…
Contributor:
Rembrandt van Rijn
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1655
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Shadow and Synagogue is one of a series of about one hundred photographs by Tress that appear in his 1975 book, Shadow, A Novel in Photographs. In the book’s visual narrative, the photographer’s…
Contributor:
Arthur Tress
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1974