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Circumcision Ceremony
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (Religious…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1722

Subjects:

Life cycle, Circumcision, Family, Children, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top of baby on man's lap surrounded by people with bed in background, the bottom showing many people in ornate room with baby crib.
Circumcision for a Sephardic family in Amsterdam
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The wealthy Sephardic family of Curiel d’Acosta is believed to have commissioned the artist Romeyn de Hooghe to make this large pen-and-ink drawing to commemorate the circumcision, in Amsterdam, of a…

Contributor:

Romeyn de Hooghe

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1665–8

Subjects:

Circumcision, Family, Dress, Children, Jewish identity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print of people gathered in bedroom with baby in man's lap in the center, and woman in bed in background.
Blood
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The train pulls up to the platform, steaming and boiling like a samovar. Lazar is standing on the platform—short, glowing, joyful—waving his dirty handkerchief at the cars. The train is on its way to…

Contributor:

David Khait

Places:

Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1928

Subjects:

Family, Children, Circumcision, Assimilation, Jewish identity

Categories:

Literature, Fiction