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The Shohet (from “Had Gadya”)
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.

Contributor:

Menachem Birnbaum

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Animals, Violence

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art, Print & book culture
Illustration of man in a bloody apron holding a bloody knife as he begins to slaughter a large animal.
Maḥzor for the Rite of Carpentras
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This maḥzor (holiday prayer book) contains the festival prayers for the whole year, according to the rite of Carpentras, and was copied in Provence. The Jews of the former papal territory of Comtat…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Carpentras, Papal States (Carpentras, France)

Date:

1540/1

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer & liturgy, Passover, Folklore, Animals

Categories:

Print & book culture, Prayer & Liturgy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text, with some words set apart in rectangular frames, surrounded by border of branches, flowers, and birds, and small illustration of boy and animal with tail in bottom margin.