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Pre-Yom Kippur Customs
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This woodcut from Libellus de Judaica confessione siue sabbato afflictionis (A Pamphlet Concerning the Jewish Faith or the Sabbath of Affliction), the second treatise of a zealous Christian convert…

Contributor:

Johannes Pfefferkorn

Places:

Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (Cologne, Germany)

Date:

1508

Subjects:

Print, Antisemitism, Holidays, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print image of two rows of people in front of river with fish in it.
The High Holidays
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1725

Subjects:

Holidays, Yom Kippur, Synagogue, Ritual & observance, Mourning

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print depicting two scenes with French text under frames: top shows men in prayer shawls sitting while one man on central platform sounds a ram's horn. Bottom image shows men in prayer shawls sitting and standing in room with several lit candles.
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
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The purpose of the Kol Nidrei proclamation is to forgive those—and tragically there have been many of them—who throughout history have, under threat of torture or death, been forced to renounce the…

Contributor:

Howard Greenfeld, Elaine Grove

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Date:

1979

Subjects:

Holidays, Yom Kippur, Repentance, Cantor, Torture

Categories:

Literature, Children & Young Adult Literature, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Drawing of crowd of people, with two figures holding Torah scrolls in the center, all surrounded by a checkered border.