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Jacques Brandon set his painting of a heder, a traditional Jewish elementary school for boys, in a Mediterranean or Near Eastern location or in an imagined distant past. The boys are dressed in white…
Contributor:
Jacques-Émile-Édouard Brandon
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1870
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Édouard Moyse’s painting portrays the Grand Sanhedrin, the Jewish high court assembled by Napoleon in 1807 to ratify the answers of an assembly of Jewish communal leaders to twelve questions submitted…
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Édouard Moyse
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Paris, France
Date:
1867
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David Tevele Schiff (d. 1791) was the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1765 until his death. At the time of his appointment, the rabbi of the Great Synagogue was also considered to be the…
Contributor:
Martha Isaacs
Places:
London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1765