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Contributor:
Lewis Feuchtwanger
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1838
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The oldest Jewish cemetery in the United States is located in New York City; the grave of Cantor Gershom Mendes Seixas can be seen here in the burial grounds of Congregation Shearith Israel.
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Photographer Unknown
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1798
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Charleston, United States of America
Date:
ca. 1819
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Contributor:
Esther Oppenheim
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(New York City, United States of America)
Date:
1730 and 1818
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Contributor:
Henry Mosler
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
Date Unknown, 19th–early 20th century
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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…
Contributor:
Myer Myers
Places:
Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies
(Philadelphia, United States of America)
Date:
1776
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Contributor:
Peter Harrison
Places:
(Newport, United States of America)
Date:
1763
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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…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
New York City, British America and the British West Indies
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1730
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Contributor:
Gertrud Natzler, Otto Natzler
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1960
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This omer calendar, marking the days between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot, is still used at Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia. The letters stand for H=Homer (Ladino for Omer); S…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
18th century