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Manuscript page with Yiddish text and illustrations below of person blowing horn, several people seated with Torah scroll, someone standing with an open book, and a turret with door.

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Yiddish Book of Customs

1500

Metal cylindrical object with carving of lion holding axe on top, and decorative carving on bottom.

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Emblem of the Jewish Butchers’ Guild

1620

Photograph of exterior of stone building with double staircase.

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Isaac Synagogue (Kraków)

1638–1645

Print engraving of large room with rows of pews with men in prayer shawls standing with books, vaulted ceiling, many chandeliers, and raised platform along far wall.

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Interior of the Synagogue in Fürth

Johannes Alexander Böner

1705

Silver candelabrum with eight branches and a central branch with carved figure on top, and decorative beads on each branch.

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Hanukkah Lamp (Frankfurt am Main)

Johann Adam Boller

1706

Glass cup etched with Hebrew text and image of group of people walking.

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Glass for a Burial Society’s Annual Banquet

1713

Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top showing men in large room walking in circle with books, the bottom showing men shoveling dirt onto grave.

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Funeral Activities

Bernard Picart

1723–1743

Print of four scenes in quadrants with German headings on each: top left is sick man in bed, top right is sick man in bed surrounded by people with candles and books, bottom left is sick man lying on the floor, and bottom right is procession through city walls.

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Juedisches Ceremonial (Jewish Ceremony): Death and Mourning

Paul Christian Kirchner

1724

Silver cup with Hebrew inscription.

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Burial Society Cup

Johann Conrad Weiss

1711/1712

Print engraving of people on boat docking at a graveyard and lifting out a tomb.

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Jewish Funeral in Ouderkerk

Romeyn de Hooghe

1675–ca. 1695

Single manuscript page with Hebrew text, two illustrations on the left margin of two people at a table with an herb and of a person next to child, and an illustration on the bottom of people sitting around a table while man waits outside the door.

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Flörsheim Haggadah

1502

Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text on right-hand page and illustration of figures wearing hats and robes under Hebrew text on left-hand page.

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The Order of Circumcision Prayers

Uri Fayvesh Segal

1750