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Collection of Yiddish Stories from Southern Germany
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This page is from a manuscript containing stories in Yiddish. It was copied and illustrated in Tannhausen, Germany between 1580 and 1600, for the Ulma family, who owned a number of important…

Contributor:

Isaac bar Yuda Reutlingen

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

1580–1600

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Yiddish, Writing, Women, Children

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page with Yiddish text and a small drawing in the middle of the right side depicting a queen kneeling before a king, a burning fire behind her, and two infants on the ground before her.
Temerl
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Cover image and page 4 of Moyshe Broderzon’s Temerl, illustrated by Joseph Chaikov. 

Contributor:

Joseph (Iosif) Chaikov, Moyshe Broderzon

Places:

Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1917

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Children, Yiddish, Education, Jewish identity

Categories:

Literature, Children & Young Adult Literature, Print & Book Culture
Page of Yiddish text with illustration of stylized bust of figure wearing necklace and crown next to a bird.
Circumcision Ceremony
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (Religious…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1722

Subjects:

Life cycle, Circumcision, Family, Children, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top of baby on man's lap surrounded by people with bed in background, the bottom showing many people in ornate room with baby crib.
Moledet (cover)
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Front page of the first issue of Moledet (Homeland), a Hebrew monthly for youth created by Simḥah Ben-Tsiyon and published by the Hebrew Teacher’s Union in Palestine from 1911 to 1946. The goal of the…

Contributor:

Simḥa Ben-Tsiyon

Date:

1911

Subjects:

Art, Children, Education, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Page of Hebrew text, with small image of figure holding sheaves in top left.
Geviksn
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Cover page of G. Bocz’s Yiddish-language biology textbook, Geviksn: Baarbet Avrom Golomb (Plants: Reworked by Avrom Golomb).

Contributor:

Avrom Golomb

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1919

Subjects:

Education, Yiddish, Jewish identity, Jewish languages, Children

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Print & Book Culture, Visual & Material Culture
Page of Yiddish text with illustration of leaves in the center.