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In reference to the deceased’s name, the central verse fragment on this monument reads “And Mordechai came before the king. . .” (Esther 8:1), and the top panel contains a low relief of a richly clad…
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Curaçao)
Date:
1716
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Rachel Soares Pereira, who died in 1721 at the age of twenty-four, was married to Isaac Pereira. Floral motifs decorate the top of her gravestone, while the bottom panel contains a relief of a hand…
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(Kingston, Jamaica)
Date:
1721
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(Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1642
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Johann Conrad Weiss
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1711/1712
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These two lecterns are from Jablonów in the southern part of eastern Galicia and may have graced the town’s wooden synagogue, which was built as early as 1674. Carved from wood, and standing on two…
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Artist Unknown
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Jabłonów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Yablonov, Ukraine)
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17th or 18th Century
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Johann Adam Boller
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1706–1732
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This brass Hanukkah lamp is thought to have been used in the First Mill Street Synagogue of Congregation Shearith Israel, which opened in New York in 1730 and was located on present-day South William…
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Artist Unknown
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New York City, British America and the British West Indies
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1730
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Artist Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1735
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Joseph Arvatz, Chaim Maman
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1740
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1750