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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B327
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 18th century, [around 1800]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Padua or Venice
    • The "Counting of the Omer" is a blessing that takes place during the 49 days from the second day of Passover
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B351
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
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    18th century, 1741
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Until it was acquired by the Braginsky Collection, this little book with the Birkat ha-mason from 1741
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B62
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
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    18th century, 1728
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    Hebrew
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    • In 1728 Meir Cohen Belinfante copied this decorated psalter from the 1670 printed edition by the Amsterdam
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B49
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    16th century, 15th century, [ca. 1500]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Padua or Venice
    • Halfan family of scribes and scholars, whose ancestors were among a group of Jews who were expelled from
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B247
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, ca. 1670-1671
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • or Hildesheim, Benedictine abbey (?)
    • They can be taken as a reaction to the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S17
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, around 1675
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • triumphal arch reminiscent of Roman Triumphal arches constructed for royal festivities throughout Europe from
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B93
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, [second half of the 14th century (around 1391?)]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr (attributed to)
    • This collection of cosmological treatises contains excerpts from a larger manuscript, presumably written
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S12
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, around 1775
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Padua or Venice
    • Italy associated twisted columns with those of the Temple of Solomon, which they believed were brought to
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B104
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, [second half of the 18th century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • considered the most important scholar among Lithuanian Ashkenazi Jews; his teaching influences Judaism up to
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B285
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1796
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The illustrations show similarities to later Haggadot by Joseph ben David of Leipnik, such as the Haggadah
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B28
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1795
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The scribe Baruch ben Shemaria from Brest-Litovsk (Belarus) created this manuscript in Amsterdam in 1795
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S13
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1746
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Scenes from the Esther narrative are positioned beneath each of the nineteen columns of text.
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B332
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1755
    Language
    Latin
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    • Doctoral diploma from the University of Padua for Israel Baruch Olmo
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B222
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1723
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • 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, B253
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    14th century, 15th century, [around 1400]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • In addition, it contains the entire text of the Haggadah, which at this time already tended to be copied
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, S58
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
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    18th century, 19th century, ca. 1900
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The reader is shown surrounded by men wearing fezes and children holding drums used as noisemakers to
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B26
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    15th century, [last quarter of the fifteenth century]
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • [Portugal, copied by a scribe named Moses or Aaron (?)]
    • This manuscript contains the full text of the Pentateuch and haftarot (weekly readings from the Prophets
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K99
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 1648
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • The lavish decoration of this printed and hand-painted ketubah attests to the high esteem in which this
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, B133
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    17th century, 1615
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • Upper Galilee), which became the new center of the kabbalistic movement after the expulsion of the Jews from
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection, K40
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    Zürich. Braginsky Collection
    Date
    18th century, 1795
    Language
    Hebrew
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    • arches were commonly used as framing devices in ketubah decorations since the earliest known ketubot from