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This synagogue, located in Carpentras, in Provence, was built in 1367 but went through serious repairs and was remodeled between 1741 and 1744 by a local civil engineer Antoine D’Allemand, in the…
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Artist Unknown
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Carpentras, Kingdom of France (Carpentras, France)
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1741–1744
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Peter Harrison
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Newport, British America and the British West Indies (Newport, United States of America)
Date:
1763
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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)
Date:
1738/9
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This Torah ark, installed in a synagogue in the Italian town of Urbino, is a fine example of Renaissance Judaica. Carved from walnut in the early sixteenth century, the ark belonged to the Sephardic…
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Urbino, Duchy of Urbino (Urbino, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1500
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Founded in 1548, the Italian Synagogue of Padua was moved to its current location by 1603. It was renovated in the nineteenth century and restored again after World War II, when the Scuola Grande…
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1548
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Built in 1568, the Paradesi Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in India, as well as in the entire British Commonwealth. The land on which it was built was a gift from the Rajah of Cochin, Paraja, so…
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Artist Unknown
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Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin (Ernakulam, India)
Date:
1568
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Temerl bat Hirsch Perlhefter
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1685/6
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This Purim tray from the seventeenth century was made in Hamburg, Germany. A fine repoussé piece, its center is adorned with a court scene, complete with a ruler sitting on a raised throne, surrounded…
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Artist Unknown
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Free Imperial City of Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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17th Century
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Andreas Landesherr
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Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1820–1821