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Klausen Book of Psalms
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According to the colophon, the scribe in Prague who produced the Klausen Book of Psalms, Shabbetai Sheftel ben Zalman Auerbach (d. 1738), was descended from a family expelled from Vienna in 1669/70…

Contributor:

Shabbetai Sheftel Auerbach

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1706

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Bible, Poetry, Writing, Artists

Categories:

Print & book culture, Biblical poetry
Page with Hebrew text of illustrations of men in turbans on either side of the text; cherub, vines, and birds at top of page; and six men in prayer shawls walking to building at bottom of page.
My First Encounter with Peretz
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[The writings of the nineteenth-century maskilic writers] Perets Smolenskin and Yitsḥok Erter opened cracks in the faith of Hasidic young men [like Asch himself]. Their life of [Talmud] study without…

Contributor:

Sholem Asch

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Artists, Poetry, Jewish languages, Jewish identity, Modernism

Categories:

Memoirs & diaries