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Shabbetai Tzvi was the central figure of a messianic movement that swept the Jewish world in the mid-seventeenth century. Born in Izmir (Smyrna), as an adolescent Shabbetai Tzvi embarked on the study…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1669
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I am a friend to all lovers of Torah and wisdom and my only desire and my complete salvation rest in disseminating the sources of the Torah in order that the earth will be full of the knowledge of God…
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Samuel David Luzzatto
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Padua, Austrian Empire (Padova, Italy)
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1851
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This siddur from Greece contains the prayers of the Romaniote (Greek-speaking Jewish) community of the eastern Mediterranean. It is open at a piyyut (liturgical poem) called “God’s Beloved Daughter,”…
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Joseph ben Ḥayim de Vitali
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Ottoman Empire (Aitoloakarnania, Greece)
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1528
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This illustration from a book of prayers for the Jewish Gravediggers Society depicts the cycle of life. Figures of men and women in pairs ascend and descend the staircase, progressing from youth to…
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Artist Unknown
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1740
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The frontispiece of this book of penitential prayers published in Amsterdam, Tikun li-kro’ laylah va-yom (A Tikkun to Read Day and Night) has a three-tiered illustration. The top level depicts Moses…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1666
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Isaac Luria , known as “the holy ARI” (an acronym of his name, meaning “lion”), was one of the most significant figures in Jewish mysticism, famed for pioneering a new conception of theoretical…
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Artist Unknown
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Eastern Europe
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ca. 1750
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The great value of prayer is well known. It is formulated in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings, and explained further in the words of our rabbis of blessed memory. It is called the service of…
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The Council of the Four Lands
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Lublin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1617
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Aryeh Judah Leib ben David (d. 1709), known as Leib Calisch, or Kalischer, was rabbi in the communities of Kremsier (now Kroměříž, Czech Republic); Łobżenica (in modern-day Poland); and Kalisz, Poland…
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Jacob Folkema
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1709
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The frontispiece of this book of penitential prayers, printed in Amsterdam by David de Castro Tartas, proclaims the pro-Sabbatean beliefs that were then widespread in the Amsterdam Jewish community…
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David de Castro Tartas
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1666
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The twelve-volume “Bermann Talmud'' was financed by the Court Jew Behrend Lehmann (Issachar Bermann Segal), printed in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, by Michael Gottschalk, and published by John…
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Behrend Lehmann
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1697–99