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Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff
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Wörlitz, Holy Roman Empire
(Wörlitz, Germany)
Date:
1789–1790
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Artist Unknown
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Yanuv, Russian Empire
(Janów, Poland)
Date:
1700s
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Abraham Hirsch
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Lyon, Second French Empire
(Lyon, France)
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1863–1864
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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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Wilhelmus Angenendt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1809
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Louis Lewandowski
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1876
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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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In 1735, Eleazar ben Samuel arrived in Amsterdam to take up the post of chief rabbi of the Ashkenazic community. To mark the occasion, Joel ben Lippman Levi minted a medal. On the front of the medal…
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Joel ben Lippman Levi
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1735
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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)
Date:
1776
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In the first place, it behoves us to fight the opinion that the regeneration of the service can be achieved only by a complete break with the past, by abolishing all traditional and inherited…
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Salomon Sulzer
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1876