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The Jewish festival of Yom Kippur, a day of reflection, fasting, and atonement, begins at sundown.
Copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Puschner illustrating observance of Yom Kippur from Paul Christian Kirchner’s Jüdisches Ceremoniel (most likely the 1724 edition published by Peter Conrad Monath in Nuremberg). I Edward Kiev Judaica Collection, K0001/004-0002#1489.
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