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This Hanukkah Lamp from Poland is made from brass and would likely have been placed near the Torah ark in a synagogue. An engraved and cast eagle sits above a domed cupola, representing gratitude and…
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17th Century
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18th Century|1728
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Ze’ev ben Abraham [?]
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Piotrków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland)
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1766
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The Rema Synagogue, named after the famous rabbi and scholar Moses Isserles (known by the Hebrew acronym “Rema”), was built in 1553 in the city of Kazimierz (today a district of Kraków). It was…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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1553 and 1557
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This partially gilt-silver Torah crown from Poland is studded with semi-precious stones. Its two-tiered base is typical of Torah crowns from Eastern Europe. It is inscribed in Hebrew with the words,…
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1729
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Tykocin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Tykocin, Poland)
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1642
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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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Zawichost, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Zawichost, Poland)
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1700
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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Early 18th Century