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During the days of Shavuot, quite a number of householders, accompanied by their sons, their wives and their infant children, would rise early each morning and walk outside the city, and outside the…
Contributor:
The Jewish Community of Corfu
Places:
Corfu, Venice (Corfu, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1700
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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…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1669
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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
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1666