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The Shohet (from “Had Gadya”)
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The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.

Contributor:

Menachem Birnbaum

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Holidays, Passover, Animals, Violence

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Illustration of man in a bloody apron holding a bloody knife as he begins to slaughter a large animal.
Chantilly Haggadah
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This Haggadah was produced in the city of Candia (now Heraklion), on the island of Crete, which was at the time under Venetian rule. The Haggadah follows the Passover seder according to the Romaniote…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Candia, Venice (Heraklion, Greece)

Date:

1500–1549

Subjects:

Haggadah, Holidays, Passover, Violence, Slavery

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology, Literature
Manuscript page with Hebrew text of illustrations of figures outside a castle on bottom and a man and woman separated by sword on the right.
Brickmaking by Prisoners
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Brickmaking by prisoners. Thebes, Egypt, 15th century BCE. This mural, from the tomb of the vizier Rekh-me-re, shows Semitic (“Asiatic”) and Nubian prisoners of war making mud bricks and repairing a…

Places:

Thebes, Egypt (Luxor, Egypt)

Date:

New Kingdom (Egypt), 15th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Passover, Labor, Human rights, Violence

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Inscriptions, History
Mural of people carrying bricks, measuring blocks, and pouring buckets.