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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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Jabłonów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Yablonov, Ukraine)
Date:
17th or 18th Century
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The wooden synagogue in Chodorów, near Lvov, Poland (now Khodoriv, near Lviv, Ukraine), built in 1652, was destroyed by the Nazis. The austere outside—shown here in an early twentieth-century, black…
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Artist Unknown
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Chodorów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Khodoriv, Ukraine)
Date:
1652 and 1714
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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)
Date:
ca. 1650