Image from a 1693(?) edition of an illustrated collection of folk tales written in 1281 by Isaac ben Solomon Sahulah (b. 1244), a Spanish Hebrew poet and kabbalist.
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Portrait of Sabbatai Zevi (1626–76), a Turkish Jew and founder of a Jewish messianic movement.
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Frontispiece of the first English translation of a work critiquing Judaism, written by Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1634–77).
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Poem praising the Torah written in the shape of a menorah by Italian philosopher Joseph ben David ibn Yaha (1494–1539).
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Moveable wheel for calendrical computations, based on a work by Eliezer Balin Ashkenazi.
Gift of J. M. Hazard
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Illustration of Solomon's Temple with quotations from Psalms.
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Parade pennant promoting "shock workers," people who worked above their quotas in Stalinist Russia, dated June 1935. The banner appears to be sponsored by Di Naye Presse, a left-wing Yiddish-language newspaper founded in Paris in the 1930s.
Zosa Szajkowski Collection, Bakhmeteff Archive
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Page from early-twentieth-century Yiddish-language Russian satirical publication Der Schlang.
Zosa Szajkowski Collection, Bakhmeteff Archive
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Yiddish-language poster for an antifascist group in the eleventh arrondissement of Paris. The group was collecting cigarettes for soldiers fighting in the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s.
Zosa Szajkowski Collection, Bakhmeteff Archive
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A Yiddish edition of the French publication Fraternité supporting a juridical statute for greater closeness with the French people.
Zosa Szajkowski Collection, Bakhmeteff Archive
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Early-twentieth-century Yiddish concert poster from Paris stating that 20 percent of the proceeds were to benefit children from the Polish city of Lublin.
Zosa Szajkowski Collection, Bakhmeteff Archive
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Yiddish poster from Paris advertising what it calls the largest French Jewish public library.
Zosa Szajkowski Collection, Bakhmeteff Archive
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Ornate ketubah or marriage contract outlines dowry and payment from bridegroom (1762).
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Detail of a 1762 ketubah or marriage contract shows the symbol of the astrological sign Scorpio.
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Frontispiece illustration from manual on the rite of circumcision, showing ark (1824).
Gift of Annie Nathan Meyer
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Illustration of King David with his companion, Jonathan, in a manuscript of liturgical poems.
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Illustration from a manuscript of liturgical poems of King Saul and the future king David playing the harp.
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Psalter signed and annotated with a study plan to teach Hebrew by Samuel Johnson, the first president of King's College, in 1758.
Columbia University Archives
Illustration of people baking matzoh, one of 27 images depicting Jewish ceremonial life in the eighteenth century in Jüdisches Ceremoniel (1726).
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Illustration of women using the mikvah, or ritual bath, from Judisches Ceremonial (1726), which includes 27 depictions of Jewish ceremonial life in the eighteenth century.
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