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Print of four scenes in quadrants with German headings on each: top left is sick man in bed, top right is sick man in bed surrounded by people with candles and books, bottom left is sick man lying on the floor, and bottom right is procession through city walls.

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Juedisches Ceremonial (Jewish Ceremony): Death and Mourning

Paul Christian Kirchner

1724

Gravestones in rows.

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Cemetery (Altona)

17th and 18th Centuries

Photograph of room with wood walls painted with Hebrew text, animals, and floral designs.

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Private Synagogue (Unterlimpurg, Germany)

Eliezer Zusman of Brody

1738/9

Container in the shape of a four-story tower with doors and windows cut out.

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Spice Container

ca. 1550

Cloth with embroidered columns on either side, pattern in the middle, and Hebrew text between two lions and crown on top.

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Torah Ark Curtain (Kriegshaber)

Elkana Schatz Naumberg

1724

Printed page with Hebrew text in circular frame and images of four figures around central text: a man with turban, frond, and censer on left, a man with staff and tablets on right, a king on bottom left, and a man playing harp on bottom right, and animal next to pitcher on top of page.

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Talmud

Behrend Lehmann

1697–99

Printed page with Hebrew text in center under archway, flanked by two figures in robes, with a figure on top amid landscape background, and two figures below text under stone archway.

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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon

Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen | Theodore Hackspan

Late 14th to early 15th Century

Manuscript page of concentric circles with Hebrew words and stars in the outer circles, and Hebrew text on top and bottom of page.

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Illustration of the (Aristotelian) Cosmos

David Ganz

18th Century

Manuscript page with a grid of Hebrew letters and words set within two domed columns with flags, with image of naked man and woman next to tree between the columns at the top of the page, and man holding scales in middle of page.

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‘Evronot Manuscript (Rules for Calculation of the Calendar)

Asher bar Samuel ha-Kohen | Leyb ben Samuel Oppenheim

1624

Manuscript page with Yiddish text and a small drawing in the middle of the right side depicting a queen kneeling before a king, a burning fire behind her, and two infants on the ground before her.

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Collection of Yiddish Stories from Southern Germany

Isaac bar Yuda Reutlingen

1580–1600

Oil lamp with row of eight cups at the bottom carved with Hebrew inscription and animal heads, and sides resembling buildings.

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Hanukkah Lamp (Germany)

1574

View of art installation from the top of a room with empty bookcases.

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Library, August Bebel Square, Berlin

Micha Ullman

1995