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Arnold Böcklin is dead—yet who among you knew that he lived? If I were to tell you that he was the man who knew how, with paintbrush dipped in colors upon a piece of canvas, to shake every heart…
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David Frishman
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1901
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Simcha (Gimar) Belmonte (born Vaz; 1582–1643) was the wife of Jakob Israel Belmonte (a poet, writer, and trader). She and her husband were among the founders of the Jewish community in Amsterdam after…
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Moses Belmonte
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1642
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Kehunat Avraham (The Priesthood of Abraham), published in Venice in 1719, is an interpretation and retelling of sections from the book of Psalms in verse. This portrait of its author, Abraham ben…
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Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1719
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Like Torah scrolls, the scroll of the biblical book of Esther, read ritually in the synagogue on the holiday of Purim, must be completely unadorned. However, in the sixteenth century, for reasons…
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Andrea Marelli
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1573
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According to the colophon, the scribe in Prague who produced the Klausen Book of Psalms, Shabbetai Sheftel ben Zalman Auerbach (d. 1738), was descended from a family expelled from Vienna in 1669/70…
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Shabbetai Sheftel Auerbach
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1706
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This bronze physician’s mortar from Verona, Italy, is decorated with a seven-branched candelabrum, flanked by the Hebrew letters mem and resh, likely the initials for the Hebrew term for “physician’s…
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Servius de Levis
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Verona, Venice (Verona, Italy)
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16th Century
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This page from a Haggadah produced in Amsterdam is an example of the work of Joseph Ben David, a prominent eighteenth-century scribe and artist known particularly for his illustrated Haggadahs. This…
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Joseph Leipnik
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1740
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This elaborately decorated title page is from a book of Psalms created by the scribe Nathan ben Samson in Gross Meseritsch, Moravia (today Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic). On the left is Aaron in his…
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Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch
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Gross Meseritsch, Holy Roman Empire (Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic)
Date:
1728
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This magnificent maḥzor (holiday prayer book) was copied—and most likely decorated—by the scribe Isaac bar Mordechai ha-Kohen (Isaac Lankosh of Kraków). (In several places, the name “Isaac” has…
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Isaac Lankosh of Kraków
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1560
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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
Places:
Bechhofen, Holy Roman Empire (Bechhofen, Germany)
Date:
1684