The interior of the wooden Horb synagogue (completed in 1735) is richly decorated in typical East European style, which, it seems, the artist Eliezer Zusman, originally from Brody, introduced to…
The twelve-volume “Bermann Talmud'' was financed by the Court Jew Behrend Lehmann (Issachar Bermann Segal), printed in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany, by Michael Gottschalk, and published by John…
Question: A woman pledged, when she lay ill, to give her disukia, which is embroidered with gilt silver thread, to be made into a ceremonial object for the synagogue. The disukia is what is called in…