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The use of wall niches for Torah scrolls was a feature of some of the earliest synagogues and continues today in Mizrahi communities. This striking faience-tile mosaic structure would have decorated a…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Isfahan, Safavid Iran (Isfahan, Iran)
Date:
16th Century
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This manuscript copy of a prayer book, containing prayers and hymns for the Sephardic community of Amsterdam, was written out by David Mendes Franco. It shows David dancing before God and his…
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David Franco Mendes
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1792
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The Harrison Miscellany is an early eighteenth-century codex of sixty leaves featuring delicate gouache illustrations and Hebrew texts. Each illustration (likely executed by a Venetian, non-Jewish…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Corfu, Venice (Corfu, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1720