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This carpet was one of the many decorative objects with biblical themes produced at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. This design features the legendary burial site of the biblical matriarch…
Contributor:
Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Palestine, Palestine)
Date:
1920–1929
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Sarah Soncino, who died in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey) in 1735, was a member of the prominent Soncino family, which established a printing press there in 1530, one in a long line of…
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1735
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There is no city in the world which can bear comparison in point of interest with Jerusalem,—fallen, desolate, and abject even as it appears—changed as it has been…
Contributor:
Judith Cohen Montefiore
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1836