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This candle reflector is made of repoussé brass, engraved and punched. The three candle holders are set into a frame decorated with flowers and leaves.
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Artist Unknown
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Lvov, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1642
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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)
Date:
17th or 18th Century
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This synagogue, located in Carpentras, in Provence, was built in 1367 but went through serious repairs and was remodeled between 1741 and 1744 by a local civil engineer Antoine D’Allemand, in the…
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Artist Unknown
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Carpentras, Kingdom of France (Carpentras, France)
Date:
1741–1744
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Frenkel, whose work was shaped by the School of Paris (École de Paris), played a key role in bringing modernism to Israeli art. Among his students were prominent members of what is known as the Land…
Contributor:
Yitshak Frenkel (Alexandre Frenkel-Frenel)
Places:
Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1920
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In 1920 and 1921, Broderzon, the guiding force of Yung-yidish (Young Yiddish), a literary and artistic group he co-founded in Łódź, published over half a dozen books of poetry and plays. Prolific and…
Contributor:
Moyshe Broderzon
Places:
Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1921
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Vadim Sidur was sometimes called “the Soviet Henry Moore” because of the similarities between his aesthetic and those of the British artist. In Sidur’s native Soviet Union, however, his work was…
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Vadim Sidur
Date:
1972
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Felix Lembersky’s three Babi Yar paintings were among the first artistic representations of the Nazi massacre in Kyiv, when, over the course of two days in September 1941, over 33,000 Jews were…
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Felix Lembersky
Date:
1944–1952
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The Binding of Isaac was painted at a time when Aharon Kahana was developing a new style that favored abstract forms divided by thick lines. His paintings were both an embrace of modern European art…
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Aharon Kahana
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1952
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The stamp of Joseph Knebel’s publishing house features his initials, J. K., on a leaf-like shield mounted on a floral wreath.
Contributor:
Joseph Knebel
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1909
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Józef Awin’s reconstruction of the synagogue in the Old Cemetery of Lwów/L’viv, featured here, reflects his clean geometricity and appreciation for Galician wooden synagogue architecture. The cemetery…
Contributor:
Józef Awin
Places:
Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1909