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This ketubah (marriage contract), was signed in Bayonne, France, whose Jewish community originated with New Christians from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth century. It marks the wedding of Isaac…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Bayonne, France
Date:
1705
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On this illustrated page from a prayer book, written in an Ashkenazic hand, the scribe Simeon ben Naphtali has added, to the prayers said at a wedding, an image of the prophet Elijah (on the left)…
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Simeon ben Naphtali
Places:
Marckolsheim, France
Date:
1662
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This maḥzor (holiday prayer book) contains the festival prayers for the whole year, according to the rite of Carpentras, and was copied in Provence. The Jews of the former papal territory of Comtat…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Carpentras, Papal States (Carpentras, France)
Date:
1540/1