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mioritic · 1 year
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Two Jewish girls, Donia and Esther Sorger, dressed up as boys for Purim in Obertyn, Poland (now Ukraine), 1930s
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mioritic · 1 year
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Two sword-shaped ("sipa") amulets engraved with the Hebrew names of angels, names of G-d, and initials of verses, sewn into clothing for the protection of children whose siblings had passed away 
Iraqi Kurdistan or Iran, late 19th - early 20th century
via Kedem Auctions
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mioritic · 8 months
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Solomon Borisovich Yudovin (1892-1954)
Sketch/copy of a page from a Pinkas of the Talmud-Torah religious school in the town of Kopychyntsi, ca. 1917
Center for Jewish Art, via shvlman on Twitter
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mioritic · 4 months
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Pages from a Jewish Bible, Germany, 13th century, from the collection of Milan's Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Klaus Lohrmann, 1000 Jahre österreichisches Judentum (Eisenstadt: Edition Roetzer, 1982)
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mioritic · 5 months
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Almanakh VUSPP (אַלמאַנאַך װאוספּפּ) (Kharkov: Tsentrfarlag / צענטרפארלאג, 1929)
Almanac of the Yiddish section of the All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers. Cover illustrated by B. Blank and M. Fradkin.
Image via Yiddish Book Center, info via Stanford Libraries
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mioritic · 1 year
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Jewish woman from Ait Bouli, Morocco, photographed by Jean Besancenot, 1930s
Israel Museum (via shvlman)
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mioritic · 1 year
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Posters advertising rose and carnation agricultural weeks
Designed by Otte Wallish (b. Moravia, 1903 - d. Israel, 1977)
Shenkar Design Archive
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mioritic · 7 months
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אַ בריװעלע אין קעסטעלע אַ גרוּס פֿאַר טאַטע־מאַמע, אַ שען „לשנה טוֹבה“לע פֿוּן גוּטע בּרכוֹת סאַמע
"A letter goes into the box
A greeting for mom and dad.
A nice “happy new year”
With only good blessings."
Shana tova, gut yontif, happy new year!
Yiddish-language Rosh Hashanah card, not dated, from the Harry and Bernice Kramer Collection (Yiddish Book Center).
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mioritic · 20 days
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Elisabeth Salomon (later Gundolf, German/Jewish, 1893–1958) with a friend in Rome, February 1926
Friedrich Gundolf + Elisabeth Salomon, Briefwechsel (1914–1931) (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2015)
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mioritic · 1 year
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a little glimpse at jewish rome
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mioritic · 1 year
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The Song of Songs, translated by Ariel and Chana Bloch
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mioritic · 9 months
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Members of the Jewish fraternity (Studentenverbindung) "Emunah" pose in their fencing gear and bloodied uniforms at their club on Servitengasse, Vienna, 1925
Photo: Ze'ev Aleksandrowicz/Beit Hatfutsot (via Universität Wien)
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mioritic · 6 months
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Simchat Torah banner, Poland, 19th century
The illustration depicts Simchat Beit Ha'Shoevah (שמחת בית השואבה, "happiness of the house of water-drawing"), a celebration that takes place during Sukkot
The National Museum in Kraków / Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art, via shvlman on Twitter
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mioritic · 5 months
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Picking oranges as part of a Youth Aliyah program in Givat Brenner, Mandatory Palestine, 1939
Photo by Rudi Weissenstein (b. Jihlava 1910 — d. Tel Aviv 1992)
The PhotoHouse, negative nr. 3054
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mioritic · 1 year
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yesterday in the jewish cemetery, gura humorului, bukovina, romania
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mioritic · 11 months
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Printer's device of Gershom ben Solomon ha'Kohen, 1514 
Reprinted in Hamisha Humshe Torah... (Prague, 1530) 
Jewish Museum in Prague
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