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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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Torah finials are a pair of ornaments used to decorate the upper ends of the rollers on which the Torah scroll is wound. The Hebrew term rimonim, which means “pomegranates,” references the…
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Myer Myers
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Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies
(Philadelphia, United States of America)
Date:
1776
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Artist Unknown
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Gördes, Ottoman Empire
(Gördes, Turkey)
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Late 18th–Early 19th Century
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Artist Unknown
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Angora, Ottoman Empire
(Ankara, Turkey)
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1826
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1864
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Peter Harrison
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(Newport, United States of America)
Date:
1763
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Vidin, Ottoman Empire
(Vidin, Bulgaria)
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1658
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The Mikve Israel-Emanuel is a synagogue that served the Spanish Portuguese Jewish community in Curaçao (and continues to function today as a Reconstructionist congregation). This synagogue is the…
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Artist Unknown
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Curaçao)
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1732
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The interior of the wooden Horb synagogue (completed in 1735) is richly decorated in typical East European style, which, it seems, the artist Eliezer Zusman, originally from Brody, introduced to…
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Horb am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Marktzeuln, Germany)
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1735