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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
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The Old Synagogue (Alte-Schul, or Stara Bóz.nica) of Kraków is located in the Kazimierz district of the city. Because it was in a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth vulnerable to attack by…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1557–1570
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The Scuola Italiana is one of five synagogues in the Venetian ghetto, and its smallest. In 1575, the Italian Jewish community established the synagogue in a preexisting building because of a law…
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1575
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The Vittorio Veneto Synagogue, in a town near Venice, was constructed on the second and third floors of a modest house. Elements of the Italian Baroque style are visible in the interior, especially in…
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Serravalle, Republic of Venice (Vittorio Veneto, Italy)
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Mid–17th Century
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The wooden synagogue in Chodorów, near Lvov, Poland (now Khodoriv, near Lviv, Ukraine), built in 1652, was destroyed by the Nazis. The austere outside—shown here in an early twentieth-century, black…
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Artist Unknown
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Chodorów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Khodoriv, Ukraine)
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1652 and 1714
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Evert van Heerdan
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1679
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David Gintsburg, Vladimir Stasov
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1905
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One Who Is Rebellious:To obey commandments of which merely the ear is aware,
Yet remain deaf to urges that shake the whole being;
To regard as good the former,
Which reveal the soul so as to abandon…
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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Raphael Avraham Shalem
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ca. 1915
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I received your inquiry in which you asked me to express my opinion . . . concerning a curtain with multicolored images that was designated a Torah curtain, and which has been used for some time for…
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Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
1732