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There were once hundreds of wooden synagogues in Poland and Lithuania, but only a very few examples of this particularly Jewish form of architecture have survived. The Zabłudów synagogue, built around…
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Zabludow, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Zabłudów, Poland)
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ca. 1637
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This Hanukkah Lamp from Poland is made from brass and would likely have been placed near the Torah ark in a synagogue. An engraved and cast eagle sits above a domed cupola, representing gratitude and…
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17th Century
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Vishniac’s photographs of Jews in Eastern Europe, which were among the last to document these communities before their destruction in the Holocaust, have become iconic images. The best known of them…
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Roman Vishniac
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1935–1938
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In The Wandering Jew, a man driven mad with horror runs through an apocalyptic landscape full of crucifixes and strewn with corpses. A protest against the long history of Christian persecution of Jews…
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Samuel Hirszenberg
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Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)
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1899
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Glicenstein depicted the Jewish Messiah as a semi-nude figure in the classical style, with bowed head and tethered to his seat. It received early recognition, admired by Rodin and praised in the…
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Henryk Glicenstein
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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ca. 1911
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The ceiling and wall paintings in the baroque-style Kupa Synagogue in Kraków, which dates from 1643, were damaged during World War II and in a pogrom that occurred in August 1945 immediately following…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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17th Century
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The Isaac (or Izaak) Synagogue in Kraków was built in 1638–1644. Named after its donor, Izaak Jakubowicz (d. 1673), also known as Isaac the Rich, the synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis during World…
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Artist Unknown
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1638–1645
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Yitzhak Katzenelson (1885–1944) was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet from Łódź who was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he was extraordinarily prolific as a poet, playwright, translator and public…
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Lea Lilienblum
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1943
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When the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial was erected in 1948, it stood amid the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. One of the key intentions was to convey the message that Jews had not gone to their deaths in the…
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Nathan Rapoport
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Warsaw, Republic of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)
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1948
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Paper cuts have been a tradition of Jewish folk art, with the earliest record of one dating to the fourteenth century. Given the widespread availability of paper in Europe by the mid-nineteenth…
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Nachman ha-Kohen Bialsker
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Bielsk, Russian Empire (Bielsk Podlaski, Poland)
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1862