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Lighting the Sabbath and Festival Candles
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This woodcut depicts Jewish women and girls lighting candles to mark the beginning of the Sabbath or a holiday. The illustration appears in a Yiddish translation by Shim’on Levi Gintsburg, printed in…

Contributor:

Isaac Tyrnau, Shim’on Levi Gintsburg

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1600

Subjects:

Women, Holidays, Sabbath, Ritual & observance, Dress

Categories:

Print & book culture, Household objects
Printed page with Yiddish text below illustration of women and children lighting a hanging lamp next to dining table.
Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites): On the Sabbath
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    Jews hold the Sabbath, above all other feasts, with the greatest veneration on account of it being named so often in the Scripture and being ordered…

Contributor:

Leone Modena

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1637

Subjects:

Holidays, Sabbath, Halakhah, Ritual & observance, Rabbis, Prayer & liturgy

Categories:

Prayer & Liturgy