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The High Holidays
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1725

Subjects:

Holidays, Yom Kippur, Synagogue, Ritual & observance, Mourning

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print depicting two scenes with French text under frames: top shows men in prayer shawls sitting while one man on central platform sounds a ram's horn. Bottom image shows men in prayer shawls sitting and standing in room with several lit candles.
A Supplication for the Day of Atonement
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For Yom Kippur, with the help of God, may He be praised. Another supplication [teḥinah]. I have founded it as the former ones, have established it, and upheld it. I the young one, Meir, son of our…

Contributor:

Meir de Boton

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1565

Subjects:

Holidays, Yom Kippur, Prayer, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy
Yosef omets (He Will Be Stronger): On Yom Kippur Eve
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985. The ancient custom of kaparot [having a chicken slaughtered after symbolically transferring one’s sins to it] is well known; I will only write that my custom is also to say, based on the Maharal…

Contributor:

Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Yom Kippur, Ritual & observance, Repentance

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy