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Contributor:
Esther Oppenheim
Places:
(New York City, United States of America)
Date:
1730 and 1818
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Torah finials are a pair of ornaments used to decorate the upper ends of the rollers on which the Torah scroll is wound. The Hebrew term rimonim, which means “pomegranates,” references the…
Contributor:
Myer Myers
Places:
Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies
(Philadelphia, United States of America)
Date:
1776
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Contributor:
Peter Harrison
Places:
(Newport, United States of America)
Date:
1763
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This brass Hanukkah lamp is thought to have been used in the First Mill Street Synagogue of Congregation Shearith Israel, which opened in New York in 1730 and was located on present-day South William…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
New York City, British America and the British West Indies
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1730
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At a meeting of the Elders and Parnassim this day Mr Heyman Levy paid the fine for refusing serving Parnass Last year, it was at the same time voted by…
Contributor:
Shearith Israel
Places:
(New York City, United States of America)
Date:
1757–1758