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Torah finials are a pair of ornaments used to decorate the upper ends of the rollers on which the Torah scroll is wound. The Hebrew term rimonim, which means “pomegranates,” references the…
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Myer Myers
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Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies
(Philadelphia, United States of America)
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1776
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Gördes, Ottoman Empire
(Gördes, Turkey)
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Late 18th–Early 19th Century
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Angora, Ottoman Empire
(Ankara, Turkey)
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1826
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1864
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Peter Harrison
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(Newport, United States of America)
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1763
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Vidin, Ottoman Empire
(Vidin, Bulgaria)
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1658
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The Mikve Israel-Emanuel is a synagogue that served the Spanish Portuguese Jewish community in Curaçao (and continues to function today as a Reconstructionist congregation). This synagogue is the…
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Artist Unknown
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Curaçao)
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1732
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The interior of the wooden Horb synagogue (completed in 1735) is richly decorated in typical East European style, which, it seems, the artist Eliezer Zusman, originally from Brody, introduced to…
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Artist Unknown
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Horb am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Marktzeuln, Germany)
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1735
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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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This Piedmontese synagogue, built in 1595, is typical of many synagogues constructed in times and places where Jews did not want to call attention to themselves because of fear of persecution. From…
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Casale Monferrato, Kingdom of Sardinia
(Casale Monferrato, Italy)
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1595 and 1765