High Synagogue, Krakow

Two-seater bench with central armrest, decorated on the seat backs with ritual objects and Hebrew text.

Circumcision Bench

In Ashkenazic communities, circumcision benches with two seats were sometimes used from the nineteenth century on, one for the sandek, the godfather on whose lap the baby boy is circumcised, and one…

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Frame with paper inside bearing the title "Jewish Boys" followed by a story in English.

Segalove mines her own life for personal narratives as a source for her feminist, conceptual, video, and performance art. Jewish Boys, a photograph of text, tells an anecdote about her first day in a…

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Print of half-length portrait of woman in hat and dress with lace border, and Polish text underneath.

Portrait of Eva Frank

Despite gender restrictions, Jewish women played central roles as religious leaders in the early modern period. Meet the female leader of one of the most controversial cults in Jewish history.

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High Synagogue, Krakow

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