xii list of illustrations
- Page of the Babylonian Talmud printed by Daniel Bomberg in
Venice in 1519. (Sotheby’s, New York) - The system of sefirot from the kabbalistic work Sha’arei Orah
(‘Gates of Light’), 1516, by Joseph b. Abraham Gikatilla.
(Leemage/Bridgeman Images) - Sabbetai Zevi enthroned as King, 1666. (Lebrecht Collection/
Alamy) - Wine and candle for the havdalah ceremony, miniature from the
Barcelona Haggadah, fourteenth century. British Library, London,
Add. 14761, fol.26. (© British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/
Bridgeman Images) - Spice boxes of pewter and silver made in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries in Germany and Eastern Europe for the
havdalah ceremony. (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel/The
Stieglitz Collection/Bridgeman Images) - A Circumcision, 1780, by Marco Marcuola. (Musée d’Art et
d’Histoire Judaïsme, Paris) - Benedict Spinoza, Dutch school, sixteenth century. (Herzog
August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel/Bridgeman Images) - A Dutch Jew, seventeenth century. (© Photo R.M.N., Paris, on
behalf of Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Judaïsme, Paris) - Megillah of the Book of Esther for use on Purim, Dutch,
eighteenth century. (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem/Bridgeman
Images) - Moses Mendelssohn, 1771, by Anton Graff. (Sammlungen der
Universität, Leipzig/Getty Images) - Frontispiece of the first edition of Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem, 1783.
(Private collection) - Print celebrating Napoleon’s ‘reinstatement of Jewish religion on
30 May 1806’ by Louis François Couché. (Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris/akg-images) - Wooden sukkah, second half of the nineteenth century, from
Fischach, Germany. (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem/Bridgeman
Images) - Shabbat in the Shtetl, c. 1914, by Issachar Ber Ryback. (Yale
Yiddish Book Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts
Library. Call Number: 2007 Folio 18)