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Akedah Story
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The caption on the top image reads: The binding of Isaac [is] today; remember his seed with mercy. The top labels, right to left: Abraham; Isaac; angel; fire; ram. The caption in the middle picture…

Contributor:

Moshe Mizrachi

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Art, Bible, Angels, demons & deities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Illustration in three horizontal panels, with Hebrew text running along the border and labeling the illustrations, which include two figures, an angel, fire, and ram at top of page; donkey, trees, and several figures in the center; and two figures in front of a line of ten camels at the bottom.
David Oppenheim
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David Oppenheim (1664–1736) was the chief rabbi of Prague. Born in Worms, he was the son of a communal leader and nephew of Samuel Oppenheim (1630–1703), financier and war contractor to Habsburg…

Contributor:

Samuel ben Moses

Places:

Dessau, Holy Roman Empire (Dessau, Germany)

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Portrait, Rabbis, Halakhah, Justice system, Bible

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Drawing of bearded man wearing collar and hat seated at table with books, framed by two columns with images of angels, and Hebrew text above his head.
Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch (scribe and artist), Psalms
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This elaborately decorated title page is from a book of Psalms created by the scribe Nathan ben Samson in Gross Meseritsch, Moravia (today Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic). On the left is Aaron in his…

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Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch

Places:

Gross Meseritsch, Holy Roman Empire (Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic)

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Artists, Art

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Printed page with Hebrew and Yiddish text in center flanked by two figures with decorative borders at top and bottom, and text wrapping around margins of page.