Showing Results 1 - 2 of 2
Foldout Calendar
Restricted
Image
This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Lublin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)

Date:

1552

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Calendar, Astrology, Animals, Holidays

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy, Religion & Theology
Manuscript calendar page with Hebrew letters in squares, decorated with illustrations of birds and flowers, with castle at the top and dragon at the bottom.
Geviksn
Public Access
Image
Cover page of G. Bocz’s Yiddish-language biology textbook, Geviksn: Baarbet Avrom Golomb (Plants: Reworked by Avrom Golomb).

Contributor:

Avrom Golomb

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1919

Subjects:

Education, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Jewish languages, Children

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Print & Book Culture, Visual & Material Culture
Page of Yiddish text with illustration of leaves in the center.