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Anshel of Kraków, Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot)
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Frontispiece of Anshel of Kraków’s Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot), a Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary of biblical words. The earliest Yiddish book printed in Poland, it was published in 1534 in…

Contributor:

Anshel of Kraków, Szmuel, Aszer, and Eljakim Helicz

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1534

Subjects:

Print, Yiddish, Jewish languages, Translation

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Printed page of four shields depicting a castle, an eagle, a snake devouring a person, and a knight on horseback, surrounded by Hebrew words, sheaves, ribbons, and flowers.
Maḥzor
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This magnificent maḥzor (holiday prayer book) was copied—and most likely decorated—by the scribe Isaac bar Mordechai ha-Kohen (Isaac Lankosh of Kraków). (In several places, the name “Isaac” has…

Contributor:

Isaac Lankosh of Kraków

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1560

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer, Art, Writing, Artists

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in a diamond shape under an illustration of an archway, decorated with heads and flowers.
Cover, Di malke Shvo: dramatishe poeme
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In 1920 and 1921, Broderzon, the guiding force of Yung-yidish (Young Yiddish), a literary and artistic group he co-founded in Łódź, published over half a dozen books of poetry and plays. Prolific and…

Contributor:

Moyshe Broderzon

Places:

Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)

Date:

1921

Subjects:

Women, Poetry, Print, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Print of two geometric figures with Yiddish heading underneath.
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.