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The Old Synagogue (Alte-Schul, or Stara Bożnica) of Kraków is located in the Kazimierz district of the city. Because it was in a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth vulnerable to attack by…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1557–1570
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Noah Joel Feivish
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1728
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Tykocin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)
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1642
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This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)
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1552
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Isaac Lankosh of Kraków
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1560
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Anshel of Kraków, Szmuel, Aszer, and Eljakim Helicz
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1534
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The kapporet is a short curtain, a valance, hung over the curtain of the Torah ark, and first began to appear in Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. The griffins and crowns that appear on…
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Zawichost, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Zawichost, Poland)
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1700
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The High (Wysoka) Synagogue was built in a Renaissance style in the mid-sixteenth century in the Kazimierz district of Kraków. It is the third-oldest synagogue in Kraków. This synagogue owes its name…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1556–1563
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The wooden synagogue in Gwozńdziec, eastern Galicia (modern-day Ukraine), was one of more than two hundred wooden synagogues that existed in Poland before World War II. Such synagogues were popular…
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Gwoździec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Gwoździec, Poland)
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ca. 1650
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Lublin, Poland
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1920–1929