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Artist Unknown
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1553
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Arnold Böcklin is dead—yet who among you knew that he lived? If I were to tell you that he was the man who knew how, with paintbrush dipped in colors upon a piece of canvas, to shake every heart…
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David Frishman
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1901
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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Early 18th Century
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The great value of prayer is well known. It is formulated in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings, and explained further in the words of our rabbis of blessed memory. It is called the service of…
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The Council of the Four Lands
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1617
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“That which is well known needs no proof,” and the root cause is the skilled operating of the printing shop in the holy community of Żółkiew [Zhovkva], may the Rock preserve it, which was established…
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The Council of the Four Lands
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1699
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Artist Unknown
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Sieniawa, Austrian Empire (Sieniawa, Poland)
Date:
1855
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The wooden synagogue in Gwozńdziec, eastern Galicia (modern-day Ukraine), was one of more than two hundred wooden synagogues that existed in Poland before World War II. Such synagogues were popular…
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Gwoździec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Gwoździec, Poland)
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ca. 1650
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Lublin, Poland
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1920–1929
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Moses Mordechai Margaliot (d. 1617) was a member of a family descended from the illustrious medieval scholar Rashi. Margaliot served as a rabbi in Kraków. He was buried in the cemetery of the Rema…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1617