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Pre-Yom Kippur Customs
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This woodcut from Libellus de Judaica confessione siue sabbato afflictionis (A Pamphlet Concerning the Jewish Faith or the Sabbath of Affliction), the second treatise of a zealous Christian convert…

Contributor:

Johannes Pfefferkorn

Places:

Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (Cologne, Germany)

Date:

1508

Subjects:

Print, Antisemitism, Holidays, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print image of two rows of people in front of river with fish in it.
A Kol Nidre Service at the Gȩsia Street Cemetery
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I was then in Warsaw for the second time. That city had always exerted a powerful attraction for me, with its great and all-encompassing Jewish life. When I was in the Polish capital for the first…

Contributor:

Yankev Botoshanski

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Date:

1956

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Class, Holidays, Yom Kippur, Cemetery

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries