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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
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If my father had been able to foresee even a thousandth part of the trials I was to endure he might have been rather less ardent on the night my mother conceived me. . . . Now, of…
Contributor:
Isaac Joel Linetski
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1867–1869