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Haggadah from Mantua, 1560
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This Haggadah from Mantua, published by the Christian printer Giacomo Rufinelli under the supervision of Isaac ben Solomon Bassan, relies heavily on the Prague Haggadah of 1526, with the addition of…

Contributor:

Isaac ben Samuel Bassan, Giacomo Rufinelli

Places:

Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

1560

Subjects:

Print, Haggadah, Passover, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Facing-page print with left-hand page of Hebrew text with decorative border and woodcut illustration on bottom of man riding ox next to brick building and man playing horn, and right-hand page with Hebrew text surrounded by decorative border including cherubs playing instruments.
Map of the City of Venice, ca. 1729
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This eighteenth-century map of Venice includes the ghetto within which the city’s Jews were required to live from 1516 until Napoleon’s conquest of the Republic of Venice in 1797. The Venice ghetto…

Contributor:

Lodovico Furlanetto

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1729

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Christian-Jewish relations, Print

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art, Architecture
Small image of topographical cityscape.