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An illustration by El Lissitzky from Chaim Nahman Bialik’s Shloyme ha-melekh (King Solomon), from an issue of the Hebrew journal Shtilim (Saplings) that was printed in 1917 in Moscow, two days before…
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El Lissitzky
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1917
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A notated version of a wordless Hasidic niggun, melody, attributed to Shneur Zalman of Liady, the founder of Chabad Hasidism.
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)
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ca. 1800
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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)
Date:
1862
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Flags like this, made of paper, decorated, and attached to a stick—sometimes with an apple and a small lit candle atop it—were commonly carried by children during Simḥat Torah celebrations. The…
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S. M. Sochora
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Bobruisk, Russian Empire (Babruysk, Belarus)
Date:
1902
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Though construction ended in 1888 after eight years, the neo-Byzantine and Moorish revival Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg was not consecrated until 1893. The grand, imposing building, which…
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Leon I. Bakhman, Ivan I. Shaposhnikov
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1893
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The Lazar Brodsky Choral Synagogue is built in the Romanesque revival style, with elements of Moorish revival. It is known as the Brodsky Choral Synagogue because it was built on the estate of the…
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Georgiy Schleifer
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1898
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The wooden synagogue in Jabłonów was built in the second half of the seventeenth century. Its walls were covered in colorful paintings. It was burned down at the beginning of World War I by Russian…
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Alois Breier
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Jablonow, Russian Empire (Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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This lithograph of a micrographic drawing, believed to be from Poland, reproduces the text of the scroll of Esther in its entirety, as well as prayers and poems for the holiday of Purim. In the center…
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Artist Unknown
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Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
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Early 20th Century
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Above Eternal Peace is Isaak Levitan’s most famous painting, a revered example of the “mood landscapes” popular in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century. The artist painted the view from a cliff…
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Isaak Levitan
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Vyshniy Volochëk, Russian Empire (Vyshny Volochyok, Russia)
Date:
1894
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Jankiel’s Concert was inspired by a scene from Pan Tadeusz, Adam Mickiewicz’s 1834 epic poem, considered the national poem of Poland. The character of Jankiel, the Jewish innkeeper, is the most…
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Maurycy Trębacz
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1900