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This remarkable manuscript of practical kabbalah was written in Eastern Europe in the mid-eighteenth century; at the end of that century it was owned by the Radvil Hasidic dynasty. In contrast to…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Ukraine)
Date:
ca. 1740
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This impressive cut-paper birth amulet is in the form of the double eagle, the symbol of the Habsburg Monarchy (and pre-partition Poland) and thus a popular motif in Galician Jewish folk art. It is…
Places:
Russian Empire (Ukraine, Ukraine)
Date:
Early 20th Century