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Shir ha-ma‘alot le-David (A Song of Ascents, of David)
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 Seek ye out the book of the Lord (Isaiah 34:16), and read The Holy Epistle [so] called to water the flock, go and browse. 

Contributor:

David Darshan

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1571

Subjects:

Bible, Education, Torah study, Bet Midrash, Print

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Anshel of Kraków, Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot)
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Frontispiece of Anshel of Kraków’s Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot), a Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary of biblical words. The earliest Yiddish book printed in Poland, it was published in 1534 in…

Contributor:

Anshel of Kraków, Szmuel, Aszer, and Eljakim Helicz

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1534

Subjects:

Print, Yiddish, Jewish languages, Translation

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology
Printed page of four shields depicting a castle, an eagle, a snake devouring a person, and a knight on horseback, surrounded by Hebrew words, sheaves, ribbons, and flowers.
John the Baptist
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The young Jewish intellectuals of Barcinski’s generation were interested in pushing boundaries, including by employing Christian imagery, as Barcinski did in this portrait of John the Baptist. The…

Contributor:

Henryk (Hanokh) Barcinski

Places:

Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)

Date:

1919

Subjects:

Christian-Jewish relations, Print, Prophets

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Religion & Theology
Linocut of man in profile with short beard, long hair, stern expression and downward gaze angled to his left.