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Yiddish Book of Customs
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This page illustrating the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is from a Yiddish book of customs from Italy. By the sixteenth century, Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jews were the largest groups of…

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Artist Unknown

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Date:

1500

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Ritual & observance, Yiddish, Holidays, Jewish languages

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Manuscript page with Yiddish text and illustrations below of person blowing horn, several people seated with Torah scroll, someone standing with an open book, and a turret with door.
Yiddish Translation of the Bible
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This manuscript page of Deuteronomy 1:1–7 is from a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Yiddish, from Italy. It is decorated with two storks and an ornate chapter heading with the opening word of the…

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Unknown

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Date:

16th Century

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Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Translation, Jewish languages, Yiddish

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Manuscript page of drawings of bird and plants on top and Yiddish text below.
De Pinto Psalter
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This decorated psalter was made for Aaron de Joseph de Pinto, a member of the prominent Portuguese Jewish family in Amsterdam. It is a manuscript, copied from a print edition done by David de Castro…

Contributor:

Meir Cohen Belinfante, Isaac Siprut

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer, Sephardic, Jewish languages

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page of Hebrew text in center framed with decorations and figures and scenes including two cherubs holding a crown at top, a king holding a harp, and a man holding censer, both with crowns above their heads, and figures at bottom.