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Seal

(stamp)

Yad

An official stamp used by a rabbi, a community or other Jewish institutions.

Translations

  • Hebrewחותם
  • GermanSiegel
  • RussianПечать
  • FrenchSceau
  • DutchZegel
  • ItalianSigillo
  • CzechPečetidlo
  • HungarianPecsétnyomó
  • SpanishSello
  • GreekΣφραγίδα
  • PolishPieczęć
  • Arabicختم
  • Yiddishחותם
  • LadinoStampa

Bibliography

Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte. “Jewish Seals in Medieval France.” Timorah: Kovetz Ma’amarim Be-Omanut Yehudit [Timorah: Articles on Jewish Art], ed. Bracha Yaniv, Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University, 2006, pp. 47-60.

Friedenberg, Daniel M. Medieval Jewish Seals from Europe. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987.

Friedenberg, Daniel M. “A Bonanza of Spanish Jewish Pre-Expulsion Seals.” Jewish Art, ed. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, vol. 18: Sepharad, 1992, pp. 100-8.

Friedenberg, Daniel M. “The Evolution and Uses of Jewish Byzantine Stamp Seals.” The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, vol. 52/53, The Walters Art Museum, 1994, pp. 1–21.

Lehnertz, Andreas. Judensiegel im Spätmittelalterlichen Reichsgebiet: Beglaubigungstätigkeit und Selbstrepräsentation von Jüdinnen und Juden [Jewish Seal in the Late Medieval Empire: Certification and Self-Representation of Jews]. 2 volumes, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020.

Peled, Haviva. “[Seals and Stamps].” Omanut ve-Umanut Be-Eretz Yisrael Ba-Me’ah Ha-19 [Arts and Crafts in 19th-Century Eretz Israel], ed. Yona Fischer, Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1979, pp. 198-205.

Shachar, Isaiah. Jewish Tradition in Art: The Feuchtwanger Collection of Judaica. Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1981, pp. 198-220.

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