Old Synagogue, Krakow

Cloth cover with embroidery and metal crown, and crown resting on top of cloth.

Torah Mantle

This Torah mantle, from about 1655, is embroidered with silk and gilt-silver thread and is richly decorated with curling, interlocking patterns. The crown dates from the middle of the nineteenth…

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Photograph of tall, rectangular monument in front of apartment buildings, depicting seven figures gathered around central figure and smaller sculpture of a seven-branched menorah flanked by lions in front of monument in left foreground.

Warsaw Ghetto Memorial (Warsaw, Poland)

When the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial was erected in 1948, it stood amid the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. One of the key intentions was to convey the message that Jews had not gone to their deaths in the…

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Photograph of man, woman, and child walking down city street with high-rise building and two rickshaws in background.

Arriving Family, King George Street, Johannesburg

In this photograph, David Goldblatt captured a Black family newly arrived in Johannesburg, looking small and vulnerable as they pass the tall pole of a streetlamp, with massive buildings looming…

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Old Synagogue, Krakow

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