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Engravers Alexis Joseph Depaulis and Augustin Dupré collaborated on this remarkable Napoleonic-era medal that honored the Grand Sanhedrin, a representative body of seventy-one rabbis and Jewish…
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Alexis Joseph Depaulis, Augustin Dupré
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1806
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In 1860, the Austrian Jewish community commissioned a medal of appreciation for Franz Joseph to commemorate the emperor’s granting to Jews the right to own property within the Austrian Empire. On the…
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Wenzel Seidan
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Paris, Second French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1860
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The Grand Synagogue of Lyon was built shortly after the establishment of a regional consistory by Emperor Napoleon III and the appointment of a regional chief rabbi. In 1858, a new synagogue for the…
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Abraham Hirsch
Places:
Lyon, Second French Empire (Lyon, France)
Date:
1863–1864