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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B67
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [around 1720]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • They are the work of an artist, probably trained in Venice, who added his monogram in different variants
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S8
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, Scroll: Italy, 18th century / Case: Venice or Rome, 17th century
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Although these motifs are frequently found on a variety of Italian Jewish ritual metalwork, they do not
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B251
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [14th/15th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The Spanish kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240- after 1291) advocated a concept of Kabbalah that had little
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B247
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, ca. 1670-1671
    Language
    Hebrew
    • They can be taken as a reaction to the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S12
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, around 1775
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The Jews of Italy associated twisted columns with those of the Temple of Solomon, which they believed
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B45
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, before 1611
    Language
    Hebrew
    • His notes became so crowded that he himself had difficulty deciphering them, whereupon a patron enabled
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B262
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1730
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
    • This Passover Haggadah with a Yiddish translation of the hymn Had Gadya (f. 23r) was copied and illustrated
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B222
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1723
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The psalms in this manuscript are subdivided according to the days of the week on which they are to be
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B52
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1750
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The prophet Elijah, who will come in order to announce the advent of the Messiah, is considered to be
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B351
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1741
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Until it was acquired by the Braginsky Collection, this little book with the Birkat ha-mason from 1741 had
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B250
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    13th century, 14th century, [late 13th or early 14th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • divided into 12 sections of a total of 372 paragraphs; its content addresses the rules concerning the order
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B49
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    16th century, 15th century, [ca. 1500]
    Language
    Hebrew
    • The Roman rite, generally known as Nussah Roma, is the oldest order of prayer outside the ancient lands
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B57
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, between 1673 and 1683
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Many of these books had previously belonged to his wife's family of prominent orthodox philanthropists
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K49
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 1675
    Language
    Hebrew
    • In the 17th century, the Jewish community of Casale Monferrato had between 500 and 600 members.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B284
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1725
    Language
    Hebrew, Yiddish
    • the end of the text there are two songs - one in Hebrew, the other in Aramaic - Echad mi-yodea and Had
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B173
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1716
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Aryeh ben Judah Leib might have used an unknown Catholic model in order to better illustrate the protective
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 4
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1491
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Originally this Bible was divided into two parts, presenting an unusual, non-canonical order of the books
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B235
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1730
    Language
    Yiddish, Hebrew
    • If Judah Leib ben Meir of Glogau had not identified himself as scribe on this title page, it would probably
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 1
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1494
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Originally this Bible was divided into two parts, presenting an unusual, non-canonical order of the books
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B243 Vol. 3
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, 1491
    Language
    Hebrew
    • Originally this Bible was divided into two parts, presenting an unusual, non-canonical order of the books