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Livro de ascamot: A List of the Books in Yeshivat ‘Ets Ḥayim
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…

Contributor:

The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1639

Subjects:

Libraries, Language and linguistics, Jewish languages

Categories:

History, Print & Book Culture, Lists & Catalogues
Manuscript page of Roman text in numbered list.
Book Acquisitions of the ‘Ets Haim Yeshiva for the Years 1718/9 and 1732/33
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1718/19 and 1732/33

Subjects:

Libraries, Scholarship, Education, Jewish quarters, Language and linguistics

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Lists & Catalogues, Print & Book Culture
Manuscript page with Portuguese text.
Dutch Translation of Penitential Prayers and Psalms
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This page of selichot (penitential prayers) is from a Dutch translation of penitential Prayers and Psalms made for Sarah de la Farra in Amsterdam.

Contributor:

David de Aron Uziel Cardoso

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer, Repentance, Language and linguistics, Assimilation

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Prayer & Liturgy
Manuscript page of Dutch text framed in lined border with illustrations of birds and flowers on top and Dutch words around frame.
Latin-Hebrew Edition of the Mishnah
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This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…

Contributor:

Willem Surenhuys

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1698

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Translation, Language and linguistics, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print with central rectangular scene of men at podium surrounded by ten circles with images of figures and animals, and scene at bottom of large crowd outside city.