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Flörsheim Haggadah
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This Haggadah, decorated in the Ashkenazic tradition, was copied in northern Italy. As is traditional for Ashkenazic Haggadahs, illustrations appear in the margins and frame the text. At the top left…

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Artist Unknown

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Date:

1502

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Family, Ritual & observance

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Literature
Single manuscript page with Hebrew text, two illustrations on the left margin of two people at a table with an herb and of a person next to child, and an illustration on the bottom of people sitting around a table while man waits outside the door.
Linen Torah Binder
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The Torah binder (also known as a wimpel) was intended to accompany the male child through his lifetime, through the stages of his circumcision, bar mitzvah, and wedding. This linen Torah binder from…

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Wife of Shimon Soave

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Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Textiles, Synagogue, Life cycle, Family, Blessings & curses

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Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects, Decorative Arts
Rectangular cloth arranged in two columns embroidered with Hebrew text and small Star of David on right side.
Ketubah with a Depiction of Jerusalem
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This ketubah (marriage contract) from Padua, Italy, marks the marriage of Samuel ben Gerson ha-Kohen me-ha-ḥazanim (“of the cantors,” or Cantarini) and Colomba bat David Aziz. The groom was a…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)

Date:

1732

Subjects:

Ketubot, Illuminated manuscripts, Marriage, Family, Profession

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Page of Aramaic text surrounded by many images and decorations, including zodiac symbols, scenes of figures and animals, cherubs, Hebrew words around margins, and vines and flowers.
Torah Binder
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This Torah binder is one of the earliest examples from Italy. The binder (also known as a wimpel) was intended to accompany the male child through his lifetime, through the stages of his circumcision…

Contributor:

Honorata Foa

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Date:

1582/3

Subjects:

Textiles, Ritual object, Ritual & observance, Life cycle, Family

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects, Decorative Arts
Rectangular cloth, folded in two places, with Hebrew text embroidered on bottom half of cloth and floral border on top half.
Torah Wrapper, Rome
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According to the Hebrew inscription, this silk velvet, gilt silver-thread embroidery and silk brocade Torah wrapper was donated in 1727 or 1728 to the Scola Castigliana (a synagogue founded by Jews of…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Ritual object, Textiles, Synagogue, Family, Community

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects
Cloth with embroidered crest in the center with Hebrew text on either side, with floral motifs on left and right edges.
Gravestone of Menahem Ventura
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This tombstone for Menahem Ventura, son of Abraham Ventura, is one of only four that have survived from the Jewish cemetery in Bologna. (After the entire Jewish community was expelled from this town…

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Bologna, Papal States (Bologna, Italy)

Date:

1553

Subjects:

Cemetery, Death, Aesthetics, Family

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Rectangular tombstone of Hebrew inscriptions.