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This medal by master engraver Charles Wiener honors the Jewish philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885) and his wife, Lady Judith Montefiore (1784–1862). Montefiore was an activist on behalf of…
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Charles Wiener
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London, United Kingdom
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1864
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, Kingdom of Prussia (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1869
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Jacques-Émile-Édouard Brandon
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1870
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Lutsk (Łuck), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lutsk, Ukraine)
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17th Century
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Temerl bat Hirsch Perlhefter
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1685/6
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The Gerush (Hebrew for “expulsion”) synagogue in Bursa, Turkey, dates back to the early sixteenth century and is unique in its dual-ark design; one upper section is located in the women’s gallery…
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Bursa, Ottoman Empire (Bursa, Turkey)
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Early 16th Century
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The Kadavumbagam Synagogue received its name (which means “by the side of the landing place”) from its peripheral location at the border of the Cochin Jewish neighborhood, where it served the Malabari…
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Artist Unknown
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin (Ernakulam, India)
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1539–1544, 17th–18th Century
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The Scuola Levantina (Levantine Synagogue), a Sephardic synagogue built in 1541, was restored in the late seventeenth century. The bimah is thought to have been carved by Andrea Brustolon (1662–1732)…
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1541
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The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…
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Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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1581
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1671–1675