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The wealthy merchant and diplomat Jeronimo Nunes da Costa (Mozes Curiël) was born in Florence in 1620. In 1627, his family settled in Hamburg, where his father, a businessman, became an important…
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Romeyn de Hooghe
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1700
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Adolf van der Laan
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1710
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Willemstad, Dutch Colonial Empire (Willemstad, Curaçao)
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1732
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The use of wall niches for Torah scrolls was a feature of some of the earliest synagogues and continues today in Mizrahi communities. This striking faience-tile mosaic structure would have decorated a…
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Isfahan, Safavid Empire (Isfahan, Iran)
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16th Century
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This Torah ark, installed in a synagogue in the Italian town of Urbino, is a fine example of Renaissance Judaica. Carved from walnut in the early sixteenth century, the ark belonged to the Sephardic…
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Urbino, Duchy of Urbino (Urbino, Italy)
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ca. 1500
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Founded in 1548, the Italian Synagogue of Padua was moved to its current location by 1603. It was renovated in the nineteenth century and restored again after World War II, when the Scuola Grande…
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
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1548
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Built in 1568, the Paradesi Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in India, as well as in the entire British Commonwealth. The land on which it was built was a gift from the Rajah of Cochin, Paraja, so…
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Artist Unknown
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin (Ernakulam, India)
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1568
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Mikhail Eisenstein
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Riga, Russian Empire (Riga, Latvia)
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1903