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The music for “Se’u She‘arim (Lift Up Your Heads, O Gates)” resembles the choral marches found in grand opera. The words are from Psalm 24: O gates, lift up your heads! Up high, you everlasting doors…
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Samuel Naumbourg
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1847
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This ketubah (marriage contract), was signed in Bayonne, France, whose Jewish community originated with New Christians from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth century. It marks the wedding of Isaac…
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Artist Unknown
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Bayonne, Kingdom of France (Bayonne, France)
Date:
1705
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This silver, repoussé, punched, engraved, and cast Torah shield, decorated with flowers and bunches of grapes, from Metz, France, is inscribed in Hebrew: C[rown of] T[orah]; Festival of Shavuot.
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Artist Unknown
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Metz, Kingdom of France (Metz, France)
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17th–18th Century
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This is the marriage contract (ketubah) that Isaac, the son of Aaron Sasportas, gave to Rebecca, the daughter of Abraham Pinto. A floral decoration stemming from a vase at the bottom of the contract…
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Artist Unknown
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Bordeaux, Kingdom of France (Bordeaux, France)
Date:
1747
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This engraving depicting a Jewish man in Cairo, Egypt is from Cornelis de Bruyn’s travelogue, Reizen van Corn. de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus enz…
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Cornelis de Bruyn
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1714
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The neoclassical Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, designed for the Baroness Charlotte Béatrice de Rothschild, remains Aaron Messiah’s most famous work. Located in Cap Ferrat in southern France, the…
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Jacques-Marcel Auburtin, Aaron Messiah
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Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat, French Republic (Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France)
Date:
1905
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Between 1909 and 1915, Amedeo Modigliani created about twenty-five stone sculptures, using techniques he learned from the modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi. The sculptures were inspired by…
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1911–1912
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Édouard Moyse’s paintings of Jewish religious life earned him the nickname “the painter of rabbis.” His paintings often depict an idealized Judaism not situated in a specific place or time. The…
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Édouard Moyse
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1897
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Amedeo Modigliani painted La Juive before he developed the signature style of his late work: portraits of women with elongated necks and faces. But a hint of that style can be seen here in the…
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1908
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Leon Gimpel made improvements to the technology of the autochrome that shortened the exposure time needed for a color photograph to be taken. His color photographs are rare documents of everyday life…
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Léon Gimpel
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1909