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This is the frontispiece to the first volume of Blasio Ugolino’s Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum, a thirty-four-volume collection of Latin treatises on Jewish customs, laws, institutions, and sacred…
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Blasio Ugolino, Giovanni Cattini
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1744
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Logemann began Kaddish, a series of ten ink, oil, and varnish paintings, in 1993 and completed it in 1996. Each canvas includes a circle with the Jewish memorial prayer in Hebrew and English…
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Jane Logemann
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1995
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A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue was the first Hebrew-language manual printed in North America. Its author Judah Monis, knowing that all undergraduates at Harvard University were required to learn…
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Judah Monis
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Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies (Cambridge, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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This sheet by the calligrapher and scribe Iehudah Machabeu presents samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian, and Latin. It…
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Iehudah Machabeu
Places:
La Rochelle, France
Date:
1655
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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.
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David de Aron Uziel Cardoso
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1714
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The masterpiece of eighteenth-century Ladino literature is the encyclopedic commentary on the Bible, Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue), by Jacob Huli, the first volume of which was…
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Jacob Huli
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1730
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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…
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Willem Surenhuys
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1698
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Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer’s cover design for Istoria evreiskago naroda (History of the Jewish People) features a title with dramatically stylized letters and a gold and black pattern that evokes…
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Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1914