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Haggadah
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This Haggadah from Amsterdam was printed by Joseph ben Abraham Athias and is adorned with elaborate copper etchings by artist Abraham Bar Jacob. It was the first Haggadah to include these sorts of…

Contributor:

Joseph ben Abraham Athias, Abraham Bar Jacob

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1695

Subjects:

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

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Printed page with Hebrew text in center framed by two standing figures on either side, and six circular images with scenes of figures and buildings.
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

Categories:

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.