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The Jewish community of Syria dates back to biblical times. After 1492, the original community was augmented by refugees from Spain and Portugal. The centers of Syrian Jewish life were in the cities…
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Unknown
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Aleppo, Ottoman Empire (Aleppo, Syria)
Date:
ca. 1710
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Drawing of a wooden synagogue from Maximilian Syrkin’s 1910 article, “Drevníya derevyannyye sinagogi v pol’she litve” (Wooden Synagogues in Polish Lithuania). Wooden synagogues were a common form of…
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Artist Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1910
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My only, best and devoted friend, as I can express myself, nonpartisan, true friend Yankev Dinezon!
I really cherish the letter that I received from you last week. But unfortunately, I am so busy with…
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Esther-Rukhl Kaminski
Places:
London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, Great Britain)
Date:
1914
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The ballet season has begun with Swan Lake, in which the young ballerina Tamara Karsavina performed twice. The public is clearly interested in ballet, and among various segments of the Petersburg…
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Akim Volynsky
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1911
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Art is ultimately tantamount to nature if only we understand it somewhat more broadly and look at man as a natural phenomenon. As the saying goes, no matter how you try to drive nature out through the…
Contributor:
Maximilian Syrkin
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1910