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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…
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Artist Unknown
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Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
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1619–1624
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The influence of Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) on German culture owed much to the salon society of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Hostess of a noted salon in Berlin, she was…
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Early 19th Century
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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…
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Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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1572
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This ketubah was written for the wedding of Isaac Senior Teixeira (1631–1705) and Rachel Senior de Mattos. The wealthy Teixeira family (also known as Teixeira de Mattos or Teixeira de Sampayo), was…
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Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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1648
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This engraving depicting a Jewish wedding procession was an illustration in a four-volume book by Johann Jakob Schudt (1664–1722), Jüdische Merkwürdigkeiten (Jewish Curiosities), published in Germany…
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Peter Fehr
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1717
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Jacob (Jakob) Frank (ca. 1726–1791) was a controversial and charismatic messianic figure who attracted a significant Jewish following in Eastern Europe. After his death, his daughter Eva Frank (1754…
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Artist Unknown
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Offenbach, German Confederation (Offenbach, Germany)
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1813
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This page is from a manuscript containing stories in Yiddish. It was copied and illustrated in Tannhausen, Germany between 1580 and 1600, for the Ulma family, who owned a number of important…
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Isaac bar Yuda Reutlingen
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Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
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1580–1600