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While ketubot (marriage contracts) are usually written in Aramaic, Karaite ketubot are written in Hebrew. They are often pentagonal in shape, most often with a pointed bottom. This example has a…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Chufut-Kale, Russian Empire
(Hora Chufutkale, Ukraine)
Date:
1719
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The three art nouveau-influenced covers by Ber Kratko for three of Y. L. Peretz’s plays feature somewhat grotesque figures. The one for Vos in fidele shtekt (What Sticks in the Fiddle) features a…
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Ber Kratko
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1910
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Joseph (Iosif) Chaikov
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918–1919
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Joseph Knebel
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1909
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Avrom Golomb
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1919
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S. M. Sochora
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Bobruisk, Russian Empire
(Babruysk, Belarus)
Date:
1902
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Artist Unknown
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(Poland, Poland)
Date:
Early 20th Century
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In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I issued a statute that effectively made Russian Jews liable to military service, as part of a policy that sought to transform the Jewish population into integrated subjects who…
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Artist Unknown
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Shkudy, Russian Empire
(Skuodas, Lithuania)
Date:
1864–1867
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Shmuel Niger
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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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