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Tikun keriyah le-kol laylah ve-yom (Supplications for Every Day and Night)
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The frontispiece of this book of penitential prayers, printed in Amsterdam by David de Castro Tartas, proclaims the pro-Sabbatean beliefs that were then widespread in the Amsterdam Jewish community…

Contributor:

David de Castro Tartas

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1666

Subjects:

Print, Messianism, Prayer, Repentance, Leadership

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Facing-page print with Hebrew text on left page and engraving on right page depicting man seated on a throne with lions and people below him and cherubs holding crown above him, and Hebrew inscription, and illustration below of men seated around a table with a crowd of people beyond.
The Sleeping Messiah
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Glicenstein depicted the Jewish Messiah as a semi-nude figure in the classical style, with bowed head and tethered to his seat. It received early recognition, admired by Rodin and praised in the…

Contributor:

Henryk Glicenstein

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

ca. 1911

Subjects:

Messianism, Leadership, Aesthetics, Modernism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Sculpture, Religion & Theology
Bronze sculpture of seated figure with beard and Star of David etched onto its side.