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Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff
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Wörlitz, Holy Roman Empire
(Wörlitz, Germany)
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1789–1790
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Artist Unknown
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Yanuv, Russian Empire
(Janów, Poland)
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1700s
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Abraham Hirsch
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Lyon, Second French Empire
(Lyon, France)
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1863–1864
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The second-oldest building in the Venetian ghetto is the Scuola Canton Synagogue. Built several years after the Scuola Grande Tedesca, the Canton Synagogue also served the Ashkenazic community. The…
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1532
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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)
Date:
1556–1563
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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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This engraving of the interior of the Alte Synagoge (Synagogue) in Berlin is based on a drawing by Anna M. Werner. It was the first edifice in Berlin built specifically to serve this function…
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1712/14 and 1720
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Joseph Avis, a Quaker carpenter, was commissioned to build the first synagogue in England following the readmission of Jews in 1656: the synagogue of London’s Spanish and Portuguese community, on…
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
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1699–1701
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The Yeshivat Dijet Synagogue was located in the Hara Seghira (the “small ghetto”) neighborhood of Djerba, Tunisia. It was one of several synagogues in this area, which, along with Hara Kebira, were…
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Artist Unknown
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Djerba, Ottoman Empire
(Djerba, Tunisia)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
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Built in 1736, the Tzedek ve-Shalom synagogue served a Sephardic congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had migrated from Holland to Suriname. Located in Suriname’s capital of Paramaribo, the…
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Paramaribo, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Paramaribo, Suriname)
Date:
1736