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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)
Date:
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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Home to a Jewish community from at least the thirteenth century, Pesaro later became the refuge of Portuguese and Spanish Jews in the sixteenth century. In 1642, a few years after the town’s Jews were…
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Pesaro, Duchy of Urbino
(Pesaro, Italy)
Date:
Late 16th Century
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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Early 18th Century
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Artist Unknown
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Tykocin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Tykocin, Poland)
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1642
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Valerii Rybarskii
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Marijampole, Russian Empire
(Marijampole, Lithuania)
Date:
1902
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Artist Unknown
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1543
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The Rema Synagogue, named after the famous rabbi and scholar Moses Isserles (known by the Hebrew acronym “Rema”), was built in 1553 in the city of Kazimierz (today a district of Kraków). It was…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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1553 and 1557