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Yiddish Book of Customs
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This page illustrating the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is from a Yiddish book of customs from Italy. By the sixteenth century, Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jews were the largest groups of…

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Artist Unknown

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Date:

1500

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Ritual & observance, Yiddish, Holidays, Jewish languages

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Print & book culture
Manuscript page with Yiddish text and illustrations below of person blowing horn, several people seated with Torah scroll, someone standing with an open book, and a turret with door.
Seder mitsvot ha-nashim (The Order of Women’s Commandments): On the Sabbath Eve
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Every woman is obligated to kindle lights on the eve of each Sabbath and Festival and this is a great mitzvah. And she makes the blessing, “Blessed are You God, our Lord, King of the universe. Who has…

Contributor:

Benjamin Slonik

Places:

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)

Date:

1577

Subjects:

Women, Holidays, Sabbath, Ritual & observance, Sin, Theology

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Theology