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Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff
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Wörlitz, Holy Roman Empire
(Wörlitz, Germany)
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1789–1790
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Artist Unknown
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Yanuv, Russian Empire
(Janów, Poland)
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1700s
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Abraham Hirsch
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Lyon, Second French Empire
(Lyon, France)
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1863–1864
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The second-oldest building in the Venetian ghetto is the Scuola Canton Synagogue. Built several years after the Scuola Grande Tedesca, the Canton Synagogue also served the Ashkenazic community. The…
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1532
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The High (Wysoka) Synagogue was built in a Renaissance style in the mid-sixteenth century in the Kazimierz district of Kraków. It is the third-oldest synagogue in Kraków. This synagogue owes its name…
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Artist Unknown
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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1556–1563
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Pieter van Hoven
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17th or 18th Century
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The kapporet is a short curtain, a valance, hung over the curtain of the Torah ark, and first began to appear in Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. The griffins and crowns that appear on…
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Artist Unknown
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Zawichost, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Zawichost, Poland)
Date:
1700
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Elkana Schatz Naumberg
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Kriegshaber, Holy Roman Empire
(Kriegshaber, Germany)
Date:
1724
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Built in the early fifteenth century and rebuilt in 1614 following a fire, the Chendamangalam Synagogue served members of the Malabari Jewish community, descendants of Cochin’s earliest Jews, who are…
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Artist Unknown
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin
(Ernakulam, India)
Date:
1614
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I. W. Loewenbach
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Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
(Munich, Germany)
Date:
1826