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Venice Haggadah
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This Haggadah from Venice was commissioned by Moses ben Gerson Parenzo, the last of the Parenzo Hebrew printers, and issued at the Caleoni press on behalf of the Bragadini family. This page shows the…

Contributor:

Moses ben Gershon Parenzo

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1629

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Holidays, Art

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Printed page with Hebrew and Judeo-Italian text in center, and side columns of Hebrew text, with decorated archway above columns and illustration of groups of men on the bottom of the page.
Sukkot
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This illustration depicting different types of sukkahs on the holiday of Sukkot appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Holidays, Sukkot, Ritual & observance, Food and drink, Family

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print of several tabernacles with people inside in the foreground and a bonfire in the background.
Purim Page (Mi-she-nikhnas adar)
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This lithograph of a micrographic drawing, believed to be from Poland, reproduces the text of the scroll of Esther in its entirety, as well as prayers and poems for the holiday of Purim. In the center…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)

Date:

Early 20th Century

Subjects:

Art, Jewish languages, Holidays, Purim

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Print with small Hebrew text arranged in the shape of a columned building, with a ribbon of text and two fish in the center.
The Shohet (from “Had Gadya”)
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.

Contributor:

Menachem Birnbaum

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Animals, Violence

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Illustration of man in a bloody apron holding a bloody knife as he begins to slaughter a large animal.
Pre-Yom Kippur Customs
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This woodcut from Libellus de Judaica confessione siue sabbato afflictionis (A Pamphlet Concerning the Jewish Faith or the Sabbath of Affliction), the second treatise of a zealous Christian convert…

Contributor:

Johannes Pfefferkorn

Places:

Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (Cologne, Germany)

Date:

1508

Subjects:

Print, Antisemitism, Holidays, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print image of two rows of people in front of river with fish in it.
Haggadah
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This page from a Haggadah produced in Amsterdam is an example of the work of Joseph Ben David Leipnik, a prominent eighteenth-century scribe and artist known particularly for his illustrated Haggadahs…

Contributor:

Joseph Leipnik

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Altona, Germany)

Date:

1737

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Illuminated manuscripts

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Ritual Objects
Manuscript page with Hebrew writing on top and illustration below of three central figures in hats and holding swords, next to a horse, camel, dogs, and two tents, with people in the left background and mountains beyond.
The High Holidays
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1725

Subjects:

Holidays, Yom Kippur, Synagogue, Ritual & observance, Mourning

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print depicting two scenes with French text under frames: top shows men in prayer shawls sitting while one man on central platform sounds a ram's horn. Bottom image shows men in prayer shawls sitting and standing in room with several lit candles.
Illustrations from Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs)
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These woodcuts appeared in Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs), a very popular Yiddish book published by Giovanni di Gara, the leading publisher of Jewish books in Venice from 1564 to 1609. It was the…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1600/1

Subjects:

Holidays, Purim, Passover, Music, Food and drink

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Woodcut illustration of six standing figures, three of whom are wearing masks and holding instruments, with Yiddish text above and below.
Sukkot Celebrations
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Holidays, Sukkot, Synagogue, Food and drink, Sephardic

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print of two scenes: top shows a procession of men in prayer shawls holding branches through a synagogue. Bottom shows a group of people eating at a table in a tabernacle.
Top: Searching for Hametz; Bottom: Passover Seder Among Sephardic Jews
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1725

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Food and drink, Family, Sephardic

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print depicting two scenes with French text under frames: top shows women and girls in kitchen looking through cupboards and cleaning the table. Bottom shows eight individuals around a dining table in ornate room with lit fire in fireplace.