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A double-line border surrounds the inscription on this seal, made of black paste or serpentine (a magnesium silicate), found at Arad. A central boss with flanking lotus buds separates the names…
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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
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Iron Age IIC, 7th–6th Century BCE
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The scroll (megillah) of Esther is read out loud on the holiday of Purim. This example, from Baghdad, is hand painted, with an ornate design in which bands of flowers frame the text. It is rolled on a…
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Artist Unknown
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
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ca. 1850
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In 1735, Eleazar ben Samuel arrived in Amsterdam to take up the post of chief rabbi of the Ashkenazic community. To mark the occasion, Joel ben Lippman Levi minted a medal. On the front of the medal…
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Joel ben Lippman Levi
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1735
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The Bechhofen Synagogue (built in 1685) is believed to have been the largest wooden synagogue in Germany. The interior of the synagogue was painted with lavish decorations in 1732 and 1733, in typical…
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Eliezer Zusman of Brody
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Bechhofen, Holy Roman Empire (Bechhofen, Germany)
Date:
1684
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This map, in a manuscript copy of Be’er mayim ḥayim (A Spring of Living Water), a commentary on Rashi published in Worms or Friedberg in the late fifteenth or sixteenth century, is based on Rashi’s…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Late 15th or 16th Century
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Tumarkin’s Holocaust and Revival Monument is a large, inverted pyramid balanced on its point, originally made of corten (or, weathered) steel and glass. (Its glass panels were removed a few years…
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Yigael Tumarkin
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1975
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Kehunat Avraham (The Priesthood of Abraham), completed in Venice in 1719, is an interpretation and retelling of sections from the book of Psalms in verse. The Hebrew text in this illustration comes…
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Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1719
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Each corner of Mickie Caspi’s Seasons Ketubah represents one of the four seasons. The traditional text is framed by a mosaic of heart-shaped flowers and encircled by a quote from the Song of Songs.
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Mickie Caspi
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Newton, United States of America
Date:
2005
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This astrological calendar contains a zodiac rota, divided into twelve astrological signs. The rota was one of the authoritative schemata that kabbalists used to map the structure of the sefirot, the…
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Unknown
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ca. 1400–1599
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Born in Eisenstadt (in Burgenland) and educated in Mattersdorf and Breslau, Akiva Eger was a prominent rabbinic and halakhic leader. After living in Lissa, Prussia, he served as rabbi in Märkisch…
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Artist Unknown
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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Early 19th Century