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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)
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1732
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The ceiling and wall paintings in the baroque-style Kupa Synagogue in Kraków, which dates from 1643, were damaged during World War II and in a pogrom that occurred in August 1945 immediately following…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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17th Century
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Several horse figurines have objects on the forehead, like this one. The object may represent the horse’s forelock or mane, or perhaps a decorative ornament. This terra-cotta figurine from the City of…
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB, 8th Century BCE
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Since chairs and beds were valuable items and not found in average homes (people usually sat on the floor and slept on mats), it is possible that terra-cotta models like this one from Lachish…
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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lakhish, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB, 8th Century BCE
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Jacob Judah Leon Templo
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1652
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1750
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A.Z.
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Kérkyra (Corfu), Ottoman Empire (Corfu, Greece)
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1675–1699
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The Kadavumbagam Synagogue received its name (which means “by the side of the landing place”) from its peripheral location at the border of the Cochin Jewish neighborhood, where it served the Malabari…
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Artist Unknown
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin (Ernakulam, India)
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1539–1544, 17th–18th Century
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The Scuola Levantina (Levantine Synagogue), a Sephardic synagogue built in 1541, was restored in the late seventeenth century. The bimah is thought to have been carved by Andrea Brustolon (1662–1732)…
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1541
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The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…
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Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Date:
1581