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A Woman Drawing Water from a Well
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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

1619–1624

Subjects:

Women, Agriculture, Profession, Family, Illuminated manuscripts

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Manuscript page with illustration of woman drawing water from a well as another individual stands behind her with a pitcher of water on head, and Hebrew text above.
Sukkot
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This illustration depicting different types of sukkahs on the holiday of Sukkot appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to…

Contributor:

Paul Christian Kirchner

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1724

Subjects:

Holidays, Sukkot, Ritual & observance, Food and drink, Family

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print of several tabernacles with people inside in the foreground and a bonfire in the background.