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This map showing the Naḥmanides Synagogue in Jerusalem, named after the medieval rabbi, was made in Italy by a Jewish scribe and is an example of a “pilgrimage scroll.” Pilgrimage scrolls were known…
These depictions of Jewish women from Adrianople (present day Edirne, Turkey) is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have done his own illustrations. Considered…
Summer Evening is one of a series of photographs William Klein took in Rome in 1956 when he was there to serve as an assistant on a movie directed by Federico Fellini. Shooting was delayed, so the…
This receipt with ornate Hebrew calligraphy was issued to certify a donation by members of Ferrara’s Jewish community to aid Jews in Jerusalem. The funds were solicited by the rabbi of a yeshiva in…
This eighteenth-century map of Venice includes the ghetto within which the city’s Jews were required to live from 1516 until Napoleon’s conquest of the Republic of Venice in 1797. The Venice ghetto…
This set design by Emanuele Luzzatti is for a performance of Golem at the Teatro La Pergola in Florence, Italy. Several operas were based on the famous legend about the clay figure, the Golem, brought…
