Exhibition Items - Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912–2012 - Exhibitions

Items by Theme » Go to Silverlight Version »

Items: 1 - 20 of 60 Page: < Previous 1 2 3 Next >

Sort by

per page

Gallery

List

The People of the Book עם הספר

Seventeenth-Century Torah Scroll (003.00.00)

Seventeenth-Century Torah Scroll
Torah scroll. Amsterdam? Seventeenth century. Moldovan Family Collection, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00)

Embroidered Torah Mantle
Torah mantle. Amsterdam? Seventeenth century. Moldovan Family Collection, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (003.00.01)

Censored Text Revealed
David Kimhi. פרוש לתהלים (Psalms with Commentary) [Bologna, ca. 1477]. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (001.00.00)

"Pocket-book" Bible
Miniature Hebrew Bible. 5 vols. Seventeenth or eighteenth century. First Deinard Collection, Gift of Jacob H. Schiff, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00)

Hebrew Bible with Judeo-Tartar Translation (006.00.00)

Hebrew Bible with Judeo-Tartar Translation
חמשה חומשי תורה (The Five Books of Torah). Hebrew with Judeo–Tartar translation. Ortakoi, Turkey: Arav Oglo and Sons, 1832–1835. First Deinard Collection, Gift of Jacob H. Schiff, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00)

The First Complete Hebrew Bible Printed in the United States (004.00.00)

The First Complete Hebrew Bible Printed in the United States
Biblia Hebraica. Vol. 1 of 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1814. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)

Song of Songs
שיר השירים (Song of Songs). Illustrations by Ze’ev Raban. Jerusalem: Shulamit Press, 1923. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)

Hebrew Bible Printed in 1933 (007.00.00)

Hebrew Bible Printed in 1933
חמשה חומשי תורה (The Five Books of the Torah), Berlin, 1933. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00)

Incantation Bowl
Incantation bowl. Mesopotamia, ca. seventh century. Kirkor Minassian Collection, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (064.00.00)

Cornerstones of Jewish Religious Life אבני יסוד

Collection of Responsa
תשובות שאלות לרשב״א (The Responsa of Rabbi Solomon ben Abraham ibn Adret). Rome: Obadiah, Manasseh and Benjamin of Rome, ca. 1469–1472. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (009.00.01)

Babylonian Talmud
תלמוד בבלי. מסכת מידות (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Midot). Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1520. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00)

The Zohar
ספר הזוהר (The Zohar). Mantua: Meir ben Ephraim of Padua and Jabob ben Naphtali ha-Kohen of Gazzuolo, 1558–1560. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (011.00.00)

Integrating Jews into French Civil Society (060.00.00)

Integrating Jews into French Civil Society
תפלת ישרים קריאי העדה אנשי שם סנהדרין / Prière des membres du Sanhédrin, récitée dans leur assemblée convoquée à Paris. Hebrew prayers with facing translation in French. Paris: Imperial Press, 1807. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (060.00.00)

Reading the Zohar by Candlelight (014.00.00)

Reading the Zohar by Candlelight
אידרא רבא (The Great Holy Assembly). Italian square script. 1834. Hebrew Manuscript 17, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00)

Comprehensive Code of Jewish Law (013.00.00)

Comprehensive Code of Jewish Law
Moses Maimonides. משנה תורה (Mishneh Torah). Amsterdam, 1702. First Deinard Collection, Gift of Jacob H. Schiff, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00)

Ibbronot
עברונות (Ibbronot). A treatise on calculating the Hebrew calendar in Ashkenazic semi-cursive script. Seventeenth century. Hebrew Manuscript 162, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (012.00.00)

First Hebrew Book Written and Published in America (016.00.00)

First Hebrew Book Written and Published in America
Joshua Falk. אבני יהושוע (Joshua’s Stones). New York, 1860. First Deinard Collection, Gift of Jacob H. Schiff, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (016.00.00)

Hebrew Riddle
Mazal-Tov Modena. Wedding broadside with emblem-riddle beginning: אצל יושב על כסא רם (He who sits enthroned on high). Italy, seventeenth or eighteenth century. Karp Collection, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (015.00.00)

Jewish Marriage Contract
Ketubbah (marriage contract) that records the marriage of Simhah Abecassis, daughter of Shelomo to Shmuel Bitton, son of Abraham on Wednesday, the twelfth of Elul, 5635, which corresponds to the twelfth of September, 1875. Tetuan, Morocco, 1875. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (017.00.00)

A Groom's Obligations to His Wife (018.00.00)

A Groom's Obligations to His Wife
Ketubbah (marriage contract) that records the marriage of Zikher Khanom Bradarani, daughter of Ya’ir Arabbi to Musa Khalami, son of Aziz, on Thursday, the fifth of Tammuz, 5696, the fourth of the Persian month of Tir which corresponds to the twenty-fifth of June, 1936. Bijar, 1936. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (018.00.00)

Key:

- Audio

- Video

- Interactive LegendMultiImgsIcon

- Multiple images/pages LegendDiscoveryIcon

- Discovery Facts for Kids

Items: 1 - 20 of 60 Page: < Previous 1 2 3 Next >

Top