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This Torah binder, made for boys at birth and later brought by young men as a symbol of participation in the synagogue, illustrates the fixed nature of traditional gender expectations.
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Koppel ben Moses Heller
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Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (Munich, Germany)
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1814
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Moses Ganbash
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1838–1839
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Daniel Henriques de Castro
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
ca. 1860
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Peter Harrison
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Newport, British America and the British West Indies (Newport, United States of America)
Date:
1763
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Artist Unknown
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New York City, Kingdom of Great Britain (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1730
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1600
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1579/1580
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Joachim Michael Salecker
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1723
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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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This synagogue structure contains stunning samples of wood painting and folk motifs (including verses, images of Jerusalem, animals, and flowers). The panels were decorated by Eliezer Zusman, an…
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Unterlimpurg, Habsburg Empire (Unterlimpurg, Germany)
Date:
1738/9