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Documentos para todo estado e ydade, e em particular para abituar bem os moços desde sua moçidade â vertude (Documents for Every State and Age, and in Particular to Accustom Young Men from Their Youth to Virtue)
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 Turn from evil and do good. Beloved Son. The great esteem in which I hold you and my intense desire for your welfare have prompted me to draw up this list of virtues as an antidote against the…

Contributor:

Isaac de Matatia Aboab

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1685

Subjects:

Family, Children, Life cycle, Charity, Oral Torah

Categories:

Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Science & Philosophy, Ethics
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.
The Present State of the Jews: On Circumcision
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Circumcision has so peculiar a veneration among the present Jews, that if all other parts of their Religion were to be changed, this like Mount…

Contributor:

Lancelot Addison

Places:

Milston, England (Milston, United Kingdom)

Date:

1675

Subjects:

Circumcision, Life cycle, Birth, Children, Synagogue

Categories:

Political Culture, History, Religion & Theology