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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…
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Moses ben Gershon Parenzo
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1629
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There have traditionally been two different interpretations of the biblical Song of Songs. It can be read as an erotic love poem or as a poem of yearning for the Land of Israel. Ze’ev Raban’s…
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Ze’ev Raban
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1911–1918
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Jacob Teixeira was born in Amsterdam in 1724 to Judith Nunes Henriques (b. Amsterdam, 1703–1732) and Joseph Teixeira (b. London, 1699–1775), who descended from the wealthy Portuguese Teixeira family…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1748
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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
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Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
Early 20th Century
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This elaborately decorated title page is from a book of Psalms created by the scribe Nathan ben Samson in Gross Meseritsch, Moravia (today Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic). On the left is Aaron in his…
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Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch
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Gross Meseritsch, Holy Roman Empire (Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic)
Date:
1728
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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg. Economic reforms enacted by Karl Alexander (and informed by…
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Jacob Gottlieb Thelot, Lucas Conrad Pfandzelt
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Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1738
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Segalove mines her own life for personal narratives as a source for her feminist, conceptual, video, and performance art. Jewish Boys, a photograph of text, tells an anecdote about her first day in a…
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Ilene Segalove
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1987
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This erotic illustration by Joseph Chaikov was made for a lavish edition of the biblical Song of Songs published by the Yiddish Kultur-lige in Kiev in 1918–1919. The forms of the embracing couple here…
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Joseph (Iosif) Chaikov
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918–1919