Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912–2012
Exhibition Items
The People of the Book רפסה םע
- Torah scroll. Amsterdam? Seventeenth century. Moldovan Family Collection, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (003.00.00)
- Torah mantle. Amsterdam? Seventeenth century. Moldovan Family Collection, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (003.00.01)
- David Kimhi. פרוש לתהלים (Psalms with Commentary) [Bologna, ca. 1477]. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (001.00.00)
- 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)
- 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)
- Biblia Hebraica. Vol. 1 of 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1814. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (004.00.00)
- 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)
- 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. Mesopotamia, ca. seventh century. Kirkor Minassian Collection, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (064.00.00)
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Cornerstones of Jewish Religious Life דוסי ינבא
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- מסכת ברכות. תלמוד בבלי (Tractate Berkahot of the Babylonian Talmud). Munich-Heidelberg, Germany, 1948. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00)
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Gates of Prayer תליפה ירעש
- מאה ברכות / Orden de Bendiciones (One Hundred Blessings). Amsterdam, 1687. Text in Hebrew and Spanish. Gift of Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Trust Fund at the Library of Congress, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (020.00.00)
- מחזור מכל השנה כמנהג קהלות קדש אשכנז (High Holyday Prayer Book for the Ashkenazi Community). Venice: Giorgio de’ Cavalli, 1567. Volume 1 of 2 volumes. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (062.00.00)
- עקדת יצחק (The Sacrifice of Isaac). Prayer book. Nineteenth century, [Iraq]. Hebrew Manuscript 197, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00)
- תפילות בנות ישראל (Prayers for the Daughters of Israel). Hamburg?, 1840. Hebrew and German. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (021.00.00)
- מחזור למעודי אל / Festgebete der Israeliten nach der gottesdienstlichen Ordnung im israelitischen Bethause zu Wien und in mehreren anderen Gemeinden (High Holy Day Service). Vienna, 1859, third printing. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (024.00.00)
- מוסף להגדה של פסח (Supplement to the Passover Haggadah). Munich Enclave, 1946. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (025.00.00)
- תיקון קריאה (Penitential Prayers for Night and Day). Amsterdam, 1666. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (061.00.00)
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Holy Land/Holy Tongue שדוקה ץרא שדוקה ןושל
- Judah Poliestri. זכרון בירושלים (Memory of Jerusalem). Constantinople: Jonah ben Jacob Ashkenazi, 1743. First Deinard Collection, Gift of Jacob H. Schiff, Hebraic Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (028.00.00)
- Haggadah shel Pesah (The Passover Haggadah). Amsterdam, 1695. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (027.00.00)
- Yom-Tov Zahalon. לקח טוב (A Good Lesson). Safed: Eliezer ben Isaac Ashkenazi of Prague, Israel, 1577. First Deinard Collection, Gift of Jacob H. Schiff, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (026.00.01)
- ספר ויקרא (Book of Leviticus). Safed: Israel Bak, 1833. First Deinard Collection, Gift of Jacob H. Schiff, Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00)
- נשא ברמה את הדגל של ארץ ישראל (“Raise High the Flag of Israel” ). Poster of Ha-Poel ha-Mizrahi, Israeli political party (fl. 1922–1956). Undated, ca. 1950s. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (031.00.00)
- Heroes of Ancient Israel: The Playing Card Art of Arthur Szyk. Burlingame, CA: Historicana, 2011. The set consists of a suite of twelve limited edition fine art prints, a collector’s deck, a player’s deck, and Heroes of Ancient Israel: The Playing Card Art of Arthur Szyk, a companion volume by Allison Claire Chang. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (063.00.00, 063.00.01, 063.00.02)
- Eva Koigan. אנחנו כאן (We are Here). Israel, undated (ca. 1950s). Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (032.00.00)
- Natural Flowers from the Holy Land. Jerusalem, ca. 1900. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (033.00.00)
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Beauty in Holiness הוצמ רודה
- Gallery/Studio Tamar Messer. שיר השירים אשר לשלמה (The Songs of Solomon). Haifa, 2001. Text in Hebrew and English. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (037.00.00)
- Eliayhu Sidi. The Eliayhu Sidi Haggadah. Jerusalem, 2007. Printed at the workshop of The Jerusalem Fine Arts Prints under the supervision of David Moss and Yair Medinah. Boxes produced by Yaacov Ben Harush. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (036.00.00)
- Asher Kalderon. הגדת פסח החדשה (The New Passover Haggadah). [Israel], 2006. Gift of the Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Trust Fund at the Library of Congress, Hebraic Section,
African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (035.00.00)
- The Washington Haggadah. Germany, 1478. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (034.00.00)
- מגלת אסתר (The Washington Scroll of Esther). Vellum. Italy, ca. eighteenth century. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (038.00.00)
- Avner Moriah. Megillat Esther (Scroll of Esther). Limited edition paper scroll. Jerusalem, ca. 2003. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (039.00.00)
- Megillat Esther (Scroll of Esther). Miniature scroll. Vellum. Jerusalem: Judaica Heirlooms Gallery, [2010?]. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (040.00.00)
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The Power of the Tongue ןושלה דיב
- Baron Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont. Alphabeti verè Naturalis Hebraici brevissima delineation (A Brief Delineatio of the True Nature of the Hebrew Alphabet). Sulzbach: Abraham Lichtenthaler, 1667. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (041.00.00)
- Judah Monis. Dickdook Leshon Gnebreet: A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue. Boston, 1735. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (042.00.00)
- Passover Haggadah. Pune (Poona), 1874. Hebrew and Marathi. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (043.00.00)
- הגדה של פסח (Hagadah shel Pesah.) Jerusalem: Koren Publishers, 2010. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (051.00.00)
- חוקי ארצות הברית (Constitution of the United States). Hebrew and Yiddish. [New York, 1891]. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (044.00.00)
- Cecilia Razovsky. Vos yede froy darf visen vegen birgershaft…What Every Woman Should Know about Citizenship. Yiddish and English. New York, 1926. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (048.00.00)
- Moise Gadol. Libro de embezar/The Book to Learn How to Speak, Read and Write from Spanish-Jewish Language in English and Yiddish. New York, 1937. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (049.00.00)
- M. Warshawsky. “Auf’n Pripetchik, oder der alef beys.” New York: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1913; Louis Briedsel. “Donkey Monkey Business.” New York: A. Goldberg, 1904; B.Thomashefsky. “The Jewish Yankee Doodle.” New York: S. Goldberg, 1905; Henry Russoto. “Hatikvah: Dort vu di tseyder.” New York: Hebrew Publishing Co., ca. 1917. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (046.04.00; 046.00.00; 046.01.00; 046.02.00)
- Yitshak Katzenelson. מארצות רחוקות (From Far-Away Lands). Warsaw, ca. 1920. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (045.00.00)
- A. A. Milne. Vini-der-Pu (Winnie the Pooh). Yiddish in English Letters. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2000. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (050.00.00)
- H. A. (Hans Augusto) Rey. Curious George דזשארדזש נייגעריקער. Yiddish translation by Sholem Berger. New York: Yidishe shtub, ca. 2005. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (052.00.00)
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A New Song השדח הריש
- Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome. ספר המחברות (The Cantos of Immanuel of Rome). Brescia: Gershom ben Moses Soncino, [October 30, 1491]. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (053.00.01)
- Jacob Zevi Sobol. שיר זהב לכבוד ישראל הזקן (“A Golden Poem in Honor of Israel, the Elder” ). New York: Tepalowsky, 1877. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (054.00.00)
- תחריטים של שירים: תשעה ספרי אמן של תחריטים ושירים (Etchings of Poems: Nine Albums of Etchings and Poems). Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Print Workshop, 1989. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (055.00.00)
- Ronny Someck. עצה לילדה רוקדת (Pointe Shoes), with etchings by Ido Agassi. Raanana: Even Hoshen Press, 2009. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (057.00.00)
- David Ben Shaul and Uri Orlev. סיפור על מלך מלכה ותרנגול (A King, a Queen and a Cock). Jerusalem: Jerusalem Print Workshop, 1996. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (058.00.00)
- Lynne Avadenka. Plum Colored Regret, with English translation by Peter Cole. Hebrew and English. Huntington Woods, Michigan: Land Marks Press, 2010. Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress (056.00.00)
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