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Tikun li-kro’ laylah va-yom (A Tikkun to Read Day and Night)
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The frontispiece of this book of penitential prayers published in Amsterdam, Tikun li-kro’ laylah va-yom (A Tikkun to Read Day and Night) has a three-tiered illustration. The top level depicts Moses…

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Artist Unknown

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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1666

Subjects:

Print, Prayer, Shavuot, Hoshana Rabbah, Messianism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Prayer & Liturgy, Print & Book Culture
Print of man holding up tablets on mountain before crowd of people on top of page, people around long table in the middle of the page, Hebrew title in center, and people sitting around round table on the bottom of page.
Portrait of Shabbetai Tzvi
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Shabbetai Tzvi was the central figure of a messianic movement that swept the Jewish world in the mid-seventeenth century. Born in Izmir (Smyrna), as an adolescent Shabbetai Tzvi embarked on the study…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1669

Subjects:

Print, Prayer, Messianism, Shavuot, Hoshana Rabbah

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Prayer & Liturgy, Print & Book Culture
Print engraving of man in turban pointing to open book with Dutch and French text underneath.