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When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…
Contributor:
Vitaliano Poselli
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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ca. 1900–1912
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Joseph Barsky’s design for the Herzliya Gymnasium, established in 1905 as the first Hebrew high school in Palestine, was adapted from Charles Chipiez’s and Georges Perrot’s understanding of…
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Joseph Barsky
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1909
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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
Places:
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
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1898
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The elaborate art-nouveau tomb of the wealthy Schmidl family in the Rákoskeresztúr Jewish cemetery in Budapest is made of ceramic tile made by the Zsolnay factory, famous for its art-nouveau ceramics…
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Béla Latja, Ödön Lechner
Places:
Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1903
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Founded in 1897 in New York City, the democratic socialist Yiddish daily Forverts quickly became the most popular Jewish newspaper in the United States (and the most widely circulated non-English…
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George Boehm
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912
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Very little is known about the actor Siegfried Berisch (1877–1933). He started out performing in the cabaret and German Jewish theater scenes in Berlin and Vienna. Berisch’s first major role was in Sc…
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Photographer Unknown
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1916
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The National and University Library building, designed by Ziva Armoni and Hanan Hebron, is a cube supported by free-standing columns, with glass walls on the ground floor. It is a prime example of the…
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Ziva Armoni, Hanan Hebron
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1960
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This painting exemplifies the decorative plaques that sometimes adorned the eastern walls of synagogues to commemorate the glory of the Temple in Jerusalem and indicate the direction of prayer. In…
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Netanel Leichter
Places:
Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1898
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Alfred Kahn’s grand classical revival synagogue and its location on Detroit’s Woodward Avenue attracted many new members to Temple Beth El. The congregation soon outgrew the building, and in 1922 it…
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Albert Kahn
Places:
Detroit, United States of America
Date:
1903