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I'm a bit late, but anyways.

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[translation: suddenly i realize that the haggadah is sort of a musical] x

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Matzah holder with seder plate from the collection of the Hungarian Ethnographic Museum

This stand, carved from tropical wood and covered with embroidered textile sheets, was collected by Gyula Grünbaum in Sopronkeresztúron (now Deutschkreutz, Austria) in 1913. From the 17th century onwards, important Jewish communities were established in the seven field towns of the Esterházy estate. The famous Talmudic school of Sopronkeresztúr, known in Hebrew as Zelem, attracted young people from far and wide. Most of the Jewish objects in the Ethnographic Museum come from this village. In the early 1910s, Grünbaum collected ritual objects in Sopronkeresztúr that were rarely or never used by the Jewish community. Both the changing customs in the traditionalist settlement and the worn condition of the objects could have justified their sale.

Four carved columns hold the three shelves for the maces and the fourth, upper shelf, the 'seder tray', which holds six bowls on legs for ritual food. On the textile covering are embroidered Torah quotations in Hebrew for the Passover feast: "And the people carried their dough before it was boiled, tying their pots into their clothes on their shoulders." (Exodus 12:34) "And they baked the dough, (...) a leavened cakes" (Exodus 12:39) "And they ate the flesh that night, roasting it on the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs." (Exodus 12:8).

#seder plate #seder #judaica #jewish tradition #art

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Currently working on an artistic project dedicated to abandoned jewish cemeteries (in Hungary) and their amazing symbols, such as these lions! Please check the Art of Abandoned Jewish Cemeteries site to follow for more details of the project.

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Muslim and Jewish neighbours in a Jewish house in Istanbul, 1980s

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Jewish man praying for German victory in WWI. 1916

100,000 Jews served in the German military in WWI, and 12,000 perished.

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Shiviti Plaque from Istanbul, Ottoman Turkey, 1838, made by Moshe Ganbash. From the collections of the Jewish Museum in NY.

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Sephardi & Romaniote Jewish Women's Clothing in the Byzantine and Ottoman Periods, illustrated by Nikos Stavroulakis

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Glasgolem, 2022

earlier this year i was honored to be asked to do the cover for issue #1 of Golem Zine, a series showcasing voices from lesser-known Jewish communities around the world. this first issue celebrated Jewish life & culture in Glasgow, and creating this cover involved a deep dive into the history of Glaswegian Jewish art & architecture.

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Currently working on an artistic project dedicated to abandoned jewish cemeteries (in Hungary) and their amazing symbols, such as these lions! Please check the Art of Abandoned Jewish Cemeteries site to follow for more details of the project.

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Sephardi & Romaniote Jewish Women's Clothing in the Byzantine and Ottoman Periods, illustrated by Nikos Stavroulakis

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Family members gather around a tomb in Kletsk, Belarus, 1932. Before the Holocaust, Jews comprised up to 80% of Kletsk's total population.

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Currently working on an artistic project dedicated to abandoned jewish cemeteries (in Hungary) and their amazing symbols, such as these lions! Please check the Art of Abandoned Jewish Cemeteries site to follow for more details of the project.

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Laurence Salzmann, "I Remember Them Now" (The last Jews of Radauti, Romania, 1974)

"Laurence Salzmann's works from Romania in the mid-1970s are among his most celebrated projects, especially The Last Jews of Rădăuți and La Baie/Bath Scenes. With I Remember them Now, Salzmann returns to this period of his career, and for the first time presents the fuller account of what he saw then: the shared lifeworld of Jews and Romanians as it unfolds in family homes, businesses, marketplaces, synagogues and shtibbels, churches, roadsides and yards. It is a world now largely lost, but not merely so. "There it was, word for word,' writes the poet Wallace Stevens, 'The poem that took the place of a mountain.' And here it is, picture for picture, the town now a vision in the mind's eye. - Jason Francisco, essayist / photographer

#incredible photoseries

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One of the four mitzvot of Purim is matanot l'evyonim, gifts for the poor. If you're in need of financial help, reblog this with you payment info. If you're able to give, pick two people in the reblogs/notes to give some money to.

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#jewish #jumblr #hungary #jewish aesthetic #judaism #Instagram