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Genesis 49-50. On Abraham's long negotiations in buying the burial ground, see Genesis 23

Jacob is taken to the cave in the field of Machpelah by a mournful procession; he wants to die in the spot bought by Abraham. Etching by L. du Guernier after L. Chéron.

This rite was performed in Holland, where the design of the plate representig this ceremony was drawn from life
The ceremony is Rosh Hashanah and the horn is called the Shofar

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 10 x 15.2 cm

Sounding the horn at the Jewish new year service. Engraving with etching after B. Picart, 17--.

"Miesieçznik Żydowski" : w 50 rocznicȩ wydania pierwszego numeru / Zofia Borzymińska.

Collection of 15 newspaper clippings from 1753 to 1771 on matters relatiing to Jewish people including anti semitism, trade adverts, trials, the rebuilding of the Bury Street Synagogue. Pasted onto a sheet of paper in chronological order.

[Press cuttings about Jewish people] : 1753-1771.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series

A traditional quest : essays in honour of Louis Jacobs / edited by Dan Cohn-Sherbok.

Medizin in Geschichte und Kultur

x, 374 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portrait ; 25 cm.

Robert Remak (1815-1865) : ein jüdischer Arzt im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Politik / Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach.

Janus (Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Ablutions et bains chez les Sémites / par le Dr. Beugnies.

Bible. N.T. Matthew 27.57-60; Mark 15.46; Luke 23.53. John 19.38-42. Joseph of Arimathaea is the Hebraic figure bearing Christ on the left. Mary Magdalene holds Christ's hand; Nicodemus holds his feet. The figure in the top centre may be John the Evangelist. No figure is readily identifiable as the Virgin, though there are three women

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Jacob is taken to the cave in the field of Machpelah by a mournful procession; he wants to die in the spot bought by Abraham. Etching by L. du Guernier after L. Chéron.

Sounding the horn at the Jewish new year service. Engraving with etching after B. Picart, 17--.

"Miesieçznik Żydowski" : w 50 rocznicȩ wydania pierwszego numeru / Zofia Borzymińska.

[Press cuttings about Jewish people] : 1753-1771.

A traditional quest : essays in honour of Louis Jacobs / edited by Dan Cohn-Sherbok.

Robert Remak (1815-1865) : ein jüdischer Arzt im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Politik / Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach.

Ablutions et bains chez les Sémites / par le Dr. Beugnies.

Christ is laid into a tomb. Lithograph by M. Fanoli after E.R. Wehnert, 1849.

Annual report of the Leeds Jewish Herzl-Moser Hospital.

AIDS and the Jewish community / The Terrence Higgins Trust.

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Jacob is taken to the cave in the field of Machpelah by a mournful procession; he wants to die in the spot bought by Abraham. Etching by L. du Guernier after L. Chéron.

Sounding the horn at the Jewish new year service. Engraving with etching after B. Picart, 17--.

"Miesieçznik Żydowski" : w 50 rocznicȩ wydania pierwszego numeru / Zofia Borzymińska.

[Press cuttings about Jewish people] : 1753-1771.

A traditional quest : essays in honour of Louis Jacobs / edited by Dan Cohn-Sherbok.

Robert Remak (1815-1865) : ein jüdischer Arzt im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Politik / Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach.

Ablutions et bains chez les Sémites / par le Dr. Beugnies.

Christ is laid into a tomb. Lithograph by M. Fanoli after E.R. Wehnert, 1849.

Annual report of the Leeds Jewish Herzl-Moser Hospital.

AIDS and the Jewish community / The Terrence Higgins Trust.

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