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This is one of only four known self-portraits by Camille Pissarro. It was painted around the time that Pissarro and other rebellious artists broke from the traditional art establishment by forming…
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, France
Date:
1873
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The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…
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Artist Unknown
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Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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1581
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A ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, it outlines the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and is written in Aramaic. This ornate ketubah from Oran, Algeria…
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Artist Unknown
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Oran, French Algeria (Oran, Algeria)
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1847
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This is the marriage contract (ketubah) that Isaac, the son of Aaron Sasportas, gave to Rebecca, the daughter of Abraham Pinto. A floral decoration stemming from a vase at the bottom of the contract…
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Artist Unknown
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Bordeaux, France
Date:
1747
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Statesman, merchant, and communal leader Baron Manuel (Isaac Nunes) de Belmonte (d. 1704) was the Spanish agent general in the Netherlands from 1664 and resident (consul) of the King of Spain from…
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Romeyn de Hooghe
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1700
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In the nineteenth century, especially in the era before photography, it was common for artists to travel to exotic or picturesque locations in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, and to produce…
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Artist Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1830
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Mikve Israel-Emanuel is a synagogue that served the Spanish Portuguese Jewish community in Curaçao (and continues to function today as a Reconstructionist congregation). It is the oldest surviving…
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Willemstad, Dutch Colonial Empire (Willemstad, Curaçao)
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1732
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Tzvi Hirsch ben Jacob Ashkenazi was a talmudist and community leader from Moravia. He was also known as the Ḥakham Tzvi, a Sephardic scholarly title he is thought to have received from the rabbinic…
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Artist Unknown
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London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1714
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The origin of this Torah scroll is in Turkey. It was donated by the Camondo family, one of the most important Jewish families in Istanbul, many of whose members settled in Paris and greatly…
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Artist Unknown
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Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
Date:
1860
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In late 1897, Camille Pissarro, the noted impressionist artist, known for his many landscapes and cityscapes, came to Paris and rented a room in the Hôtel du Louvre, which gave him a good view of the…
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, France
Date:
1898