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Man with Torah
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Frenkel, whose work was shaped by the School of Paris (École de Paris), played a key role in bringing modernism to Israeli art. Among his students were prominent members of what is known as the Land…

Contributor:

Yitshak Frenkel (Alexandre Frenkel-Frenel)

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Modernism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Religion & Theology
Watercolor pen and ink drawing of angular figure holding Torah scroll.
Maḥzor for the Rite of Carpentras
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This maḥzor (holiday prayer book) contains the festival prayers for the whole year, according to the rite of Carpentras, and was copied in Provence. The Jews of the former papal territory of Comtat…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Carpentras, Papal States (Carpentras, France)

Date:

1540/1

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer, Passover, Folklore, Animals

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy
Manuscript page with Hebrew text, with some words set apart in rectangular frames, surrounded by border of branches, flowers, and birds, and small illustration of boy and animal with tail in bottom margin.