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Drawing of a man of short stature with long wavy hair and a hat, holding a cane in right hand with left hand on hip, with figures in background and Hebrew and German writing above and below picture.

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Portrait of Jacob Ries

1710

Printed page with Yiddish text below illustration of women and children lighting a hanging lamp next to dining table.

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Lighting the Sabbath and Festival Candles

Isaac Tyrnau | Shim’on Levi Gintsburg

1600

Rectangular cloth, folded in two places, with Hebrew text embroidered on bottom half of cloth and floral border on top half.

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Torah Binder (Italy)

Honorata Foa

1582/3

Print engraving of large room with rows of pews with men in prayer shawls standing with books, vaulted ceiling, many chandeliers, and raised platform along far wall.

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Interior of the Synagogue in Fürth

Johannes Alexander Böner

1705

Photograph of wasp hive inside cavity of cow's skull.

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Samson’s Riddle

Biblical Period

Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text and letter formations.

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Compilation of Folk Remedies and Amulets

ca. 1600

Facing-page manuscript with illustration of fish and spiral design with Hebrew list below on right side, and illustrations of ram's head and bull's head with Hebrew lists below on left page.

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Sefer goralot

Abraham Ibn Ezra

18th Century

Manuscript with illustrations of tombs and Hebrew text.

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Tombs in the Holy Land

16th Century

Manuscript page with Hebrew text, decorative motifs in margins, illustration of jaguar on top of page, and illustration of lion under tree on bottom.

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Maḥzor

Eliezer ben Abraham of Pisa

1531

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Jerusalem, the Adulterous Wife

Biblical Period

Manuscript page with Hebrew text in center, large decorated Hebrew word at the top of the page next to illustration of figure at top right pouring wine, and illustration of people seated at table at bottom of page.

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Haggadah (Crete)

Mattetiah Spagnolo

1583

Manuscript scroll page of Hebrew text with illustrated figures, one on horseback, on top.

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Scroll of the Book of Esther

Moses Pescarol

1616