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This paper cut, commemorating the anniversary of a date of death, originates from Galicia.
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(Galicia, Ukraine)
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1867–1880
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(Lviv, Ukraine)
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1642
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Smotrych, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Smotrych, Ukraine)
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1744
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These two lecterns are from Jablonów in the southern part of eastern Galicia and may have graced the town’s wooden synagogue, which was built as early as 1674. Carved from wood, and standing on two…
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Artist Unknown
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Jabłonów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Yablonov, Ukraine)
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17th or 18th Century
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While ketubot (marriage contracts) are usually written in Aramaic, Karaite ketubot are written in Hebrew. They are often pentagonal in shape, most often with a pointed bottom. This example has a…
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Artist Unknown
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Chufut-Kale, Russian Empire
(Hora Chufutkale, Ukraine)
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1719
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Bruno Schulz
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1941–1942
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The wooden synagogue in Chodorów, near Lvov, Poland (now Khodoriv, near Lviv, Ukraine), built in 1652, was destroyed by the Nazis. The austere outside—shown here in an early twentieth-century, black…
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Chodorów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Khodoriv, Ukraine)
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1652 and 1714
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Abraham Manievich
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Kyiv, Russian SFSR
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1919
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Polonne, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Polonne, Ukraine)
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1728
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This remarkable manuscript of practical kabbalah was written in Eastern Europe in the mid-eighteenth century; at the end of that century it was owned by the Radvil Hasidic dynasty. In contrast to…
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ca. 1740