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Again, I caution you: when you go to some feast in celebration of the performance of a mitzvah, do not focus only on eating and drinking. Rather, you should first ask some sort of praiseworthy…
Contributor:
Shabbetai Sheftel Horowitz
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1660
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Behold, I am aged and my eyes are dim and my hands heavy and shaky, and at a time when my strength, enabling me to remain standing upon my watch, is ebbing away—with the yoke of the…
Contributor:
Pinchas Katzenellenbogen
Places:
Boskovice, Holy Roman Empire (Boskovice, Czech Republic)
Date:
1760
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This enameled glass beaker, belonging to the Polin Burial Society in Bohemia, is a fine example of the melding of Jewish and Bohemian art forms. It features painted figures carrying a body toward a…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Poleň (Polin), Holy Roman Empire (Czech Republic)
Date:
1691
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This Haggadah was commissioned by Nathan ben Isaac Oppenheim of Vienna, a member of a prominent family of Court Jews. Its title page features a miniature of the sacrifice of Isaac being prevented by…
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Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna
Places:
Polná, Holy Roman Empire (Polná, Czech Republic)
Date:
1719