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🧵 @DailyPictureTheme #DailyPictureTheme #fire
Images of burning 📚 by fire 🔥 were quite popular, just as was the burning of 📚 &people. Here's a frontispiece frm a 1784 edition of the Index of Prohibited Books, quoting Acts 19:19. All official editions of the index till mid-19th c would have it 1/
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#DailyPictureTheme #fire Here is an emblem of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, showing a gentleman with a 🎩 throwing books into #fire . The NYSSV was founded by Anthony Comstock in 1873, after whom the Comstock Act is named.
03:43 PM - Aug 30, 2023
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Here is a 1942 poster against Nazi 📚 burning with FDR's quote "You Cannot Kill Books by Fire" "People die but books never die."
https://www.loc.gov/item/9...
03:50 PM - Aug 30, 2023
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A marker commemorating 🔥 of Talmud on Campo de’ Fiori, Rome on Rosh HaShanah 5314/Sept 9, 1553. (Giordano Bruno was 🔥there in 1600)
Hebrew & Italian Talmud verse says “the parchment burning but its letters are flying to the heavens”+ 1st line of lamentation for🔥 of the Talmud in Paris, 1242/Fin
04:02 PM - Aug 30, 2023
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