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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1916
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Mikhail Eisenstein
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Riga, Russian Empire
(Riga, Latvia)
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1903
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A. Leopold,
It would appear from your letter that you do not believe that art is a factor in civilization and progress. You are not the only one. One might agree with you that up to now no statue or…
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Sh. Yanovsky
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1906
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The world is full of armies.
But that is not what will kill us.
Béla Balázs
If there is culture today, it can only be an aesthetic culture. If one wants to raise seriously the question whether there…
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Georg Lukács
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Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
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1910
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Ephraim Moses Lilien
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1902
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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)
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1568
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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Early 18th Century
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A.Z.
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Kérkyra (Corfu), Ottoman Empire
(Corfu, Greece)
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1675–1699
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The Scuola Levantina (Levantine Synagogue), a Sephardic synagogue built in 1541, was restored in the late seventeenth century. The bimah is thought to have been carved by Andrea Brustolon (1662–1732)…
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1541
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The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…
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Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire
(Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Date:
1581