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The „Amsterdam Machsor“

Today, it is known as the “Amsterdam Machzor”: In the mid-thirteenth century, a French scribe created this very special manuscript for the Jewish community in Cologne, which is also one of the oldest Hebrew manuscripts from the Middle Ages in the German-speaking world.   A machzor (Hebrew for “cycle”) is a prayer book for the Jewish […]

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