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This brass Hanukkah lamp is thought to have been used in the First Mill Street Synagogue of Congregation Shearith Israel, which opened in New York in 1730 and was located on present-day South William…
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Artist Unknown
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New York City, British America and the British West Indies (New York, United States of America)
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1730
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1735
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Joseph Arvatz, Chaim Maman
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1740
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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Early 18th Century
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Caspar Birckenholtz
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1661–1690
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Artist Unknown
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Vidin, Ottoman Empire (Vidin, Bulgaria)
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1658
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Gyula Pap
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Weimar, Weimar Republic (Weimar, Germany)
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1922
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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)
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1776
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Artist Unknown
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Gördes, Ottoman Empire (Gördes, Turkey)
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Late 18th–Early 19th Century
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This Torah binder, made for boys at birth and later brought by young men as a symbol of participation in the synagogue, illustrates the fixed nature of traditional gender expectations.
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Koppel ben Moses Heller
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Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (Munich, Germany)
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1814