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Flyer for Redeeming Captured Jews
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This flyer calls for the Jewish community to pay a ransom to rescue Jewish captives from the 1686 siege of Buda, which resulted in the capture of the Hungarian city from the Ottoman Empire by armies…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Buda, Ottoman Empire (Buda, Hungary)

Date:

1686

Subjects:

Print, War, Slavery, Christian-Jewish relations, Muslim-Jewish relations

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, History, Print & Book Culture
Printed page with Hebrew text, floral border, and small image of person with tablets and crowd of people on top of page.
Chantilly Haggadah
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This Haggadah was produced in the city of Candia (now Heraklion), on the island of Crete, which was at the time under Venetian rule. The Haggadah follows the Passover seder according to the Romaniote…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Candia, Venice (Heraklion, Greece)

Date:

1500–1549

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Violence, Slavery

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Literature
Manuscript page with Hebrew text of illustrations of figures outside a castle on bottom and a man and woman separated by sword on the right.