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Portrait of Menasseh Ben Israel
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Born to converso parents and baptized as Manoel Dias Soeiro, Menasseh Ben Israel moved as a boy with his family to Amsterdam, where they reverted openly to Judaism. In 1626, he established the first…

Contributor:

Shalom Italia

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1640–1649

Subjects:

Portrait, Scholarship, Writing, Print, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

History, Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Portrait print of man in skullcap and beard with Latin text in oval frame, Latin text below, and small illustration of man with walking stick and Hebrew book above.
List of Books
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During his life, Samuel Abbas amassed an impressive library that included 1,136 books in different languages—Latin (more than four hundred works), Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and…

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Samuel Abbas

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1693

Subjects:

Print, Libraries, Rabbis, Translation, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Lists & Catalogues
Printed page with Hebrew and Latin text and small illustration of book with decorative border.
Latin-Hebrew Edition of the Mishnah
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This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…

Contributor:

Willem Surenhuys

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1698

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Translation, Language and linguistics, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print with central rectangular scene of men at podium surrounded by ten circles with images of figures and animals, and scene at bottom of large crowd outside city.
Portrait of Jacob Judah Leon Templo
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This is one of three known portraits of Jacob Judah Leon Templo, who was famous for his elaborate wooden model of the Temple of Solomon, which he turned into a traveling exhibition and showed and…

Contributor:

Shalom Italia

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1640–1649

Subjects:

Portrait, Print, Profession, Medicine, Dress

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print of man in moustache and skullcap facing viewer and holding cloth in left hand, encircled by Latin text. Beneath his portrait is an unraveled scroll with illustration of figures and large buildings.