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Start Over Date 1780 ✖ Media Type Images ✖ Subject (Topic) Jews--Social life and customs ✖ Subject (Topic) Yom Kippur ✖ Subject (Topic) Judaism--Customs and practices ✖

1. Celebration of the Day of Forgiveness, by the Jews in Germany

Celebration of the Day of Forgiveness, by the Jews in Germany

Date:: 1780
Description:: Black-and-white engraving depicting Yom Kippur at the Ashkenazi Obbene Shul in Amsterdam. Engraving after Bernard Picart. From A new and univeral history of the religious rites and ceremonies of all nations in the world by William Hurd, published London: A. Hogg.

2. Religious Penance observ'd by the antient Jews

Religious Penance observ'd by the antient Jews

Date:: 1780
Description:: Black-and-white engraving depicting the Yom Kippur ritual of malkot (lashes) in the Great Synagogue of Amsterdam. Engraving after Bernard Picart. From A new and univeral history of the religious rites and ceremonies of all nations in the world by William Hurd, published London: A. Hogg.