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Multilingual Exemplar Leaf
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This sheet by the calligrapher and scribe Iehudah Machabeu presents samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian, and Latin. It…

Contributor:

Iehudah Machabeu

Places:

La Rochelle, France

Date:

1655

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Scribes, Education, Scholarship

Categories:

Language & Linguistics, Lists & Catalogues, Visual & Material Culture
Decorative page of birds, flowers, and rectangular sections of different scripts.
Five Orations Given in Padua by Lelio Della Torre
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Contributor:

Lelio Della Torre

Places:

Padua, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (Padova, Italy)

Date:

1829

Subjects:

Philosophy, Theology, Education, Scholarship

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
Degeneration
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To Professor Cesare Lombroso in Turin. Most esteemed and dear teacher! I dedicate this book to you, in order to express aloud that I would not have been able to write this…

Contributor:

Max Nordau

Places:

Kingdom of Italy (Italy, Italy)

Date:

1896

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Education, Scholarship, Writing, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Political Culture, Science & Philosophy