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Map of Jerusalem
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In this seventeenth-century map, Jerusalem is depicted as a fairly dense city within a wall, with only a few structures outside. Men in Arab dress stand in small groups conversing with one another in…

Contributor:

George Braun, Franciscus Hogenberg

Places:

Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (Cologne, Germany)

Date:

1612

Subjects:

Print, Art, Jerusalem, Cities, Artists

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, History, Print & Book Culture
Print of walled city surrounded by hills, and two figures in forefront, with Latin text above and below image.
Flagellum calumniantium (The Scourge of Calumniators)
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Contributor:

Benedict de Castro

Places:

Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)

Date:

1631

Subjects:

Medicine, Health, Jewish identity, Philosophy

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Medicine, History
Pre-Yom Kippur Customs
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This woodcut from Libellus de Judaica confessione siue sabbato afflictionis (A Pamphlet Concerning the Jewish Faith or the Sabbath of Affliction), the second treatise of a zealous Christian convert…

Contributor:

Johannes Pfefferkorn

Places:

Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (Cologne, Germany)

Date:

1508

Subjects:

Print, Antisemitism, Holidays, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print image of two rows of people in front of river with fish in it.
Medicus politicus (The Physician for the Public Good)
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So, to begin in the manner now accepted, in which (by scholarly consensus) the practice is to lay one…

Contributor:

Rodrigo de Castro

Places:

Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)

Date:

1614

Subjects:

Medicine, Health, Ethics

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Medicine
Bronze mortar decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked with the Hebrew letters mem and resh.