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64 | Alisha Meininghaus www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 45–65 sion of the creativity which the typesetters deployed, unlike for the tradition- ally fixed text. At the same time, however, numerous associative references can be established between the illustrations and the text – for example, the depiction of angels matching the angel invocations, the bride and the man with the book matching the heading with the sex of the child, or the naked figures matching the invocation of Adam and Eve. With captions missing, the illustrations are open to various interpretations and associations. The illustra- tions could provide practical help in choosing the appropriate print, increase the attractiveness of the product, and possibly enhance the apotropaic effect of the text from an emic perspective. The observations made provide impulses for further research. As valuable as studies on single amulets are, a broad comparison of all preserved prints will surely uncover connections and differences between amulet types. Fur- thermore, comparison of the amulets with other contemporary printed works with which they share visual and other elements is also indispensable. In a further step, the results should be contextualized within Jewish discourses of the 18th and 19th centuries, and an attempt should be made to reconstruct the practices associated with the amulets. Bibliography Beinhauer-Köhler, Bärbel / Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria / Valentin, Joachim (eds.), 2010, Religiöse Blicke – Blicke auf das Religiöse. Visualität und Religion, Zürich: Theologischer Verlag. Carlebach, Elisheva, 2011, Palaces of Time. Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Havard University Press. Fagin Davis, Lisa, 1991, The Fränkel Mahzor of 1699, The Yale University Library Gazette, 65, 3/4, 132–138. Feuchtwanger-Sarig, Naomi / Irving, Mark / Schrijver, Emile (eds.), 2014, Jewish Art in Context. The Role and Meaning of Artifacts and Visuale Images, Studia Rosenthaliana, 45, Leuven / Paris, Walpole, MA: Peeters. Fishof, Iris (ed.), 2001, Written in the Stars. Art and Symbolism of the Zodiac, Jerusalem: Israel Museum. Folmer, Margaretha, 2007, A Jewish Childbirth Amulet for a Girl, in: Baasten, Martin F. J. / Munk, Reinier (eds.), Studies in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Culture. Presented to Al- bert van der Heide on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, Amsterdam: Springer, 41–56. Franklin, Alexandra, 2019, Woodcuts, in: Duncan, Dennis / Smyth, Adam (eds.), Book Parts, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 209–222. Hübner, Wolfgang, 2013, Körper und Kosmos. Untersuchungen zur Ikonographie der zodi- akalen Melothesie, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Kiyanrad, Sarah / Theis, Christoffer / Willer, Laura (eds.), 2018, Bild und Schrift auf “ma- gischen” Artefakten, Berlin: De Gruyter.