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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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The wooden synagogue in Gwozńdziec, eastern Galicia (modern-day Ukraine), was one of more than two hundred wooden synagogues that existed in Poland before World War II. Such synagogues were popular…
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Gwoździec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Gwoździec, Poland)
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ca. 1650
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This synagogue structure contains stunning samples of wood painting and folk motifs (including verses, images of Jerusalem, animals, and flowers). The panels were decorated by Eliezer Zusman, an…
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Unterlimpurg, Habsburg Empire
(Unterlimpurg, Germany)
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1738/9
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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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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Andreas Landesherr
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Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1820–1821
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho
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Charleston, United States of America
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1838
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Martha Isaacs
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
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1765
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Wenzel Seidan
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Paris, Second French Empire
(Paris, France)
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1860
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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