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Circumcision Ceremony
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (Religious…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1722

Subjects:

Life cycle, Circumcision, Family, Children, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top of baby on man's lap surrounded by people with bed in background, the bottom showing many people in ornate room with baby crib.
Yosef omets (He Will Be Stronger): On Going to the Synagogue
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[ . . . ] 5. When one wishes to go to the synagogue, he should say, “I will go to the synagogue for the sake of the unification of the presence of the Holy One and to raise it from its fall,” as…

Contributor:

Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Synagogue, Prayer & liturgy, Ritual & observance, Community, Children

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy