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Circumcision for a Sephardic family in Amsterdam
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The wealthy Sephardic family of Curiel d’Acosta is believed to have commissioned the artist Romeyn de Hooghe to make this large pen-and-ink drawing to commemorate the circumcision, in Amsterdam, of a…

Contributor:

Romeyn de Hooghe

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1665–8

Subjects:

Circumcision, Family, Dress, Children, Jewish identity

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art
Print of people gathered in bedroom with baby in man's lap in the center, and woman in bed in background.
Bilderbuch (Picture Book)
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[Picture 1]I am king Solomon With scepter and crown Pikkolo is my chancellor. He stands near my throne. 

Contributor:

Adele Sandler

Date:

ca. 1905

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Children, Family, Holidays, Adolescence

Categories:

Children & young adult literature
Illustration of two children greeting a man at the door to a dining room, where the table is set with flowers, cake, and lit candles.
Jewish Family
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Mark Gertler’s Jewish Family is not meant to be a portrait of a specific Jewish family but is instead an archetype painted in a style that evokes folk art and early Italian painting. The model for the…

Contributor:

Mark Gertler

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Family, Jewish identity, Children, Dress, Painting

Categories:

Painting
Painting of child standing and woman in headcovering standing on either side of a man in head covering sitting with cane.
Geviksn
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Cover page of G. Bocz’s Yiddish-language biology textbook, Geviksn: Baarbet Avrom Golomb (Plants: Reworked by Avrom Golomb).

Contributor:

Avrom Golomb

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1919

Subjects:

Education, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Jewish languages, Children

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Print & book culture
Page of Yiddish text with illustration of leaves in the center.