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Though construction ended in 1888 after eight years, the neo-Byzantine and Moorish revival Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg was not consecrated until 1893. The grand, imposing building, which…
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Leon I. Bakhman, Ivan I. Shaposhnikov
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1893
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The Lazar Brodsky Choral Synagogue is built in the Romanesque revival style, with elements of Moorish revival. It is known as the Brodsky Choral Synagogue because it was built on the estate of the…
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Georgiy Schleifer
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1898
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The elaborate art-nouveau tomb of the wealthy Schmidl family in the Rákoskeresztúr Jewish cemetery in Budapest is made of ceramic tile made by the Zsolnay factory, famous for its art-nouveau ceramics…
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Béla Latja, Ödön Lechner
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1903
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The neoclassical Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, designed for the Baroness Charlotte Béatrice de Rothschild, remains Aaron Messiah’s most famous work. Located in Cap Ferrat in southern France, the…
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Jacques-Marcel Auburtin, Aaron Messiah
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Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat, French Republic (Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France)
Date:
1905
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The wooden synagogue in Jabłonów was built in the second half of the seventeenth century. Its walls were covered in colorful paintings. It was burned down at the beginning of World War I by Russian…
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Alois Breier
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Jablonow, Russian Empire (Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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Founded in 1897 in New York City, the democratic socialist Yiddish daily Forverts quickly became the most popular Jewish newspaper in the United States (and the most widely circulated non-English…
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George Boehm
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1912
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“Four-room” house plan, Iron Age II. The typical Israelite dwelling was a rectangular or square house of between roughly 500 and 1,200 square feet (50–110 sq m). It is often called a “four-room” or…
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Iron Age II, 10th–6th Century BCE
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The masonry in the royal palace of Samaria, the capital of the Northern Kingdom, is considered the finest example of ashlar masonry from the Iron Age. The blocks are cut so well that they fit together…
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Samaria, Land of Israel (Samaria, Israel)
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Iron Age IIA, 9th Century BCE
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This image depicts the interior of the synagogue that served the Beth Israel congregation in Amsterdam. Before 1639, there were three Sephardic congregations in Amsterdam: Beth Jacob (founded possibly…
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Jan Veenhuyzen
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1647
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Originating from the Iberian Peninsula, the de Pinto family were wealthy merchant bankers who lived in Amsterdam from the seventeenth century on. In Spain, members of the family had converted to…
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Abraham Rademaker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1730/1