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The Turkish Family
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In The Turkish Family, the term Turkish is likely a placeholder for a portrait of a modern Sephardic Jewish family like that of the artist. Notably, the family members wear modern European fashions…

Contributor:

Jules Pascin

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1907

Subjects:

Painting, Family, Children, Animals, Class

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of several women facing viewer, and cherub overhead.
Maḥzor for the Rite of Carpentras
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This maḥzor (holiday prayer book) contains the festival prayers for the whole year, according to the rite of Carpentras, and was copied in Provence. The Jews of the former papal territory of Comtat…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Carpentras, Papal States (Carpentras, France)

Date:

1540/1

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer, Passover, Folklore, Animals

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text, with some words set apart in rectangular frames, surrounded by border of branches, flowers, and birds, and small illustration of boy and animal with tail in bottom margin.