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Yeshivat Dijet Synagogue (Djerba, Tunisia)
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The Yeshivat Dijet Synagogue was located in the Hara Seghira (the “small ghetto”) neighborhood of Djerba, Tunisia. It was one of several synagogues in this area, which, along with Hara Kebira, were…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Djerba, Ottoman Empire (Djerba, Tunisia)

Date:

End of the 17th Century

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Scholarship, Art, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
Exterior photograph of stone building with arched windows, wraparound patio with stone columns, and dirt ground.
Birth Amulet, Tunisia
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This is an early printed amulet from Tunis, containing texts and symbols commonly used on such talismans printed in North Africa. However, this example is somewhat unusual, as the Shir le-ma‘alot psal…

Contributor:

Ya‘akov ben Elijah Gaj

Places:

Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)

Date:

Early 20th Century

Subjects:

Art, Amulets, Birth, Maghrebi

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects, Print & Book Culture
Page with Hebrew text in three columns, interspersed with drawings of a hand, two lions, fish, and plants.