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Multilingual Exemplar Leaf
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This sheet by the calligrapher and scribe Iehudah Machabeu presents samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian, and Latin. It…

Contributor:

Iehudah Machabeu

Places:

La Rochelle, France

Date:

1655

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Scribes, Education, Scholarship

Categories:

Language & Linguistics, Lists & Catalogues, Visual & Material Culture
Decorative page of birds, flowers, and rectangular sections of different scripts.
A Dictionary of Political Terms
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Politishes verter-bukh (A Dictionary of Political Terms) is an anonymous work billed as “an interpretation of the strange words that are used in Yiddish newspapers, journals, and political and…

Date:

1907

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Jewish identity, Rebellion, Dictionaries

Categories:

Literature, Language & Linguistics
Page of printed Yiddish text, with alphabet chart on left side.
Behistun Trilingual Inscription and Aramaic Papyrus
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Behistun Trilingual Inscription, Persia. This inscription of Darius I (reigned 522–486 BCE) illustrates the polyglot character of the Persian Empire. Versions in the Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian…

Places:

Kermanshah, Iran
Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

Persian Period, Late 6th–Early 5th Century BCE

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Writing, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Language & Linguistics
Relief with figures with hands bound standing next to larger figure along wall with relief of winged figure and Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian inscriptions.