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The Isaac (or Izaak) Synagogue in Kraków was built in 1638–1644. Named after its donor, Izaak Jakubowicz (d. 1673), also known as Isaac the Rich, the synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis during World…
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Artist Unknown
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1638–1645
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This was not a very big courtyard, a longish but narrow one, like hundreds of others of this type in the thickly settled part of Jewish Warsaw. One side, the innermost one, was a two-story…
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Avrom Teytlboym
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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1947
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Nathan, the shoemaker from Porisov, a small Jewish village in Poland, came home one evening shortly before his departure for Colombia with a Torah scroll under his arm. With a slight shiver, he lay…
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Salomón Brainsky
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1955