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In this table, giving the notation for chanting the Torah, the musical notes indicate the melody of each cantillation mark, while the Hebrew words below them indicate the name and shape of the mark.
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Unknown
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Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
Date:
ca. 1611
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[ . . . ] 5. When one wishes to go to the synagogue, he should say, “I will go to the synagogue for the sake of the unification of the presence of the Holy One and to raise it from its fall,” as…
Contributor:
Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
17th Century
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The task of this book was determined by its being part of the Grundriß [der Gesamtwissenschaft des Judentums; Fundamental Study toward the Comprehensive Knowledge of Judaism] series. Based on…
Contributor:
Ismar Elbogen
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1913
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This print depicting a service in the synagogue in Fürth is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400 Jewish…
Contributor:
Johannes Alexander Böner
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705
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This seventeenth-century silver repoussé and partly gilt Torah shield from Germany is inlaid with semi-precious stones. In the center of the shield appear the ten commandments in a Hebrew inscription…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
Date:
17th Century