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A Guest for the Night
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On the eve of the Day of Atonement, in the afternoon, I changed from the express to the local train that runs to my home town. The Jews who had traveled with me got…

Contributor:

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1938

Subjects:

Travel, Holidays, Yom Kippur, Synagogue, Food and drink, Fiction

Categories:

Fiction
Sukkot Celebrations
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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:

1724

Subjects:

Holidays, Sukkot, Synagogue, Food and drink, Sephardic

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print of two scenes: top shows a procession of men in prayer shawls holding branches through a synagogue. Bottom shows a group of people eating at a table in a tabernacle.