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A Woman Drawing Water from a Well
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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

1619–1624

Subjects:

Women, Agriculture, Profession, Family, Illuminated manuscripts

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page with illustration of woman drawing water from a well as another individual stands behind her with a pitcher of water on head, and Hebrew text above.
Letters and Diary
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The negro movement is still a most vexatious and mischievous one, and its effects are painfully felt in every Southern household. This morning Cy came to high words with George and…

Contributor:

Emma Mordecai

Places:

Richmond, Confederate States of America (Richmond, United States of America)

Date:

1864–1865

Subjects:

War, Slavery, Military, Agriculture, Family

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Letters
Isaac Blesses Jacob and Esau
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[To Jacob, thinking that he is Esau:] And he smelled his clothes and he blessed him, saying, “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of the fields that the Lord has blessed. “May…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Family, Agriculture, Israel/Israelis, Violence, Parenthood

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Literature, Biblical Poetry, Poetry