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A Bible Goes into Exile | JTS Library
In the spring of 1492, Abraham Khalif finished copying this Bible in Toledo. The biblical text was complete—but the book was not.A Masoretic...
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Jews were few in Germanic lands (Ashkenaz) in the early second millennium, even despite the presence of so illustrious a figure as the great
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The Rothschild Mahzor is a Jewish prayer book for the Roman rite, handwritten and illuminated in Florence in 1490. The scribe, Abraham Judah
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A Haggadah is the script for the seder ritual on the first nights of Passover. The word means “telling,” and the seder is a ritual for the t
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Genizah Ketubbah with Special Condition | JTS Library
A ketubbah (“writ”) is a pre-nuptual contract that specifies many of a groom’s obligations to his bride in the event of divorce or the death
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This Jerusalem Sukkot poster offers a window into the religious imagination of the emerging Haredi community in the Land of Israel. Its phot...
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