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Scroll of the Book of Esther
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This scroll of Esther from Germany, created for use on the holiday of Purim, is extensively decorated, with illustrations of biblical scenes from the Esther story, as well as various flora and fauna…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Holy Roman Empire (Germany)

Date:

ca. 1630

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Holidays, Purim, Animals, Music

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Ritual Objects, Religion & Theology
Scroll manuscript page with Hebrew text in four columns, with illustrations on top of figures seated talking to each other, working by a tree, and walking; the middle sections feature ladders and people working on trees; the bottom features elephants and rhinoceroses.
Illustrations from Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs)
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These woodcuts appeared in Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs), a very popular Yiddish book published by Giovanni di Gara, the leading publisher of Jewish books in Venice from 1564 to 1609. It was the…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1600/1

Subjects:

Holidays, Purim, Passover, Music, Food and drink

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Woodcut illustration of six standing figures, three of whom are wearing masks and holding instruments, with Yiddish text above and below.
Menot ha-levi (Portions of the Levite)
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And I have heard an amazing reason from an old man as to why music was absent from that feast [of King Ahasuerus], and I present it here, with a great number of additions to what I heard. These will…

Contributor:

Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz

Places:

Adrianople, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)

Date:

16th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Purim, Music, Bible

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Biblical Commentary