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The Rema Synagogue, named after the famous rabbi and scholar Moses Isserles (known by the Hebrew acronym “Rema”), was built in 1553 in the city of Kazimierz (today a district of Kraków). It was…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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1553 and 1557
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The Old Synagogue (Alte-Schul, or Stara Bóz.nica) 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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Artist Unknown
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1557–1570
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The worst conflagration is that which flares up from the depths. All the water in the world can’t extinguish such a fire before it has gutted everything in its way, because by the time it has been…
Contributor:
Mordekhai Feierberg
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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And around us loomed the mountains, various heights, various shapes, squeezed together or clambering atop one another. Some were terrifying with their rugged lines, some were soft and delicate like a…
Contributor:
Hersh Dovid Nomberg
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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Yanuv, Russian Empire
(Janów, Poland)
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1700s
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•Workers
•Handicraft and small industry: guilds (tsekhn)
•Trade and industry under Aryan trustees
•Free professions…
Contributor:
Oyneg Shabes Archive
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Warsaw, General Government
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1942
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A group of people living together under extreme coercive conditions without the conscious intent of forming a community of common fate created forms that were only possible on the basis of the ghetto…
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Oskar Rosenfeld
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Litzmannstadt, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1943
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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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Artist Unknown
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
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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“He goes back four cubits etc.”
This implies that he must move backwards, but not forwards or to the sides. [ . . . ] It seems that this action was instituted by the sages only for an individual…
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Joel Sirkes
Places:
Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1631–1640