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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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Contributor:
Pieter van Hoven
Date:
17th or 18th Century
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The kapporet is a short curtain, a valance, hung over the curtain of the Torah ark, and first began to appear in Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. The griffins and crowns that appear on…
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Artist Unknown
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Zawichost, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Zawichost, Poland)
Date:
1700
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Contributor:
Elkana Schatz Naumberg
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Kriegshaber, Holy Roman Empire
(Kriegshaber, Germany)
Date:
1724
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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…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Cochin, Kingdom of Cochin
(Ernakulam, India)
Date:
1614
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The women’s prayer section depicted in this painting gives a rare glimpse into the ways that women have asserted their agency and voices even in gender-segregated spaces.
Contributor:
Maurycy Gottlieb
Places:
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1878
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Contributor:
Ze’ev ben Abraham [?]
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Piotrków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland)
Date:
1766
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Contributor:
Andreas Landesherr
Places:
Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire
(Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1820–1821
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Contributor:
Solomon Nunes Carvalho
Places:
Charleston, United States of America
Date:
1838
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Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
New York City, Kingdom of Great Britain
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1730