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Latin-Hebrew Edition of the Mishnah
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This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…

Contributor:

Willem Surenhuys

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1698

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Translation, Language & linguistics, Christian-Jewish relations

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Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print with central rectangular scene of men at podium surrounded by ten circles with images of figures and animals, and scene at bottom of large crowd outside city.
Pre-Yom Kippur Customs
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This woodcut from Libellus de Judaica confessione siue sabbato afflictionis (A Pamphlet Concerning the Jewish Faith or the Sabbath of Affliction), the second treatise of a zealous Christian convert…

Contributor:

Johannes Pfefferkorn

Places:

Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (Cologne, Germany)

Date:

1508

Subjects:

Print, Antisemitism, Holidays, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print image of two rows of people in front of river with fish in it.
Portrait of Jacob Judah Leon Templo
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This is one of three known portraits of Jacob Judah Leon Templo, who was famous for his elaborate wooden model of the Temple of Solomon, which he turned into a traveling exhibition and showed and…

Contributor:

Shalom Italia

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1640–1649

Subjects:

Portrait, Print, Profession, Medicine, Dress

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print of man in moustache and skullcap facing viewer and holding cloth in left hand, encircled by Latin text. Beneath his portrait is an unraveled scroll with illustration of figures and large buildings.