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This is a magnificent
example of micrography, tiny Hebrew script marking out the shape of a figure,
in this case a classic portrayal of the Angel of Death. In this particular example
the script is in Hebrew yet the language is German. The many signed names would
indicate that this was done in Central Europe, probably in a school of the German
Haskalah (Enlightenment) movement, around the middle of the 19th century.
It appears that these penmanship examples were carried out by the students of
a class for the learning of Hebrew script.
This illustration
is found in a book entitled Nisyonot be-Ketav Ivri (Experiments in Hebrew
Script), which includes five examples of pictures done in micrography, a number
of script samples with decoration and a great number of simpler samples of fine
script.
See
also: Angel of Death in Bible and Talmud Angel
of Death in Folklore
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Image
and text courtesy of the Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv. |
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