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The Mikve Israel-Emanuel is a synagogue that served the Spanish Portuguese Jewish community in Curaçao (and continues to function today as a Reconstructionist congregation). This synagogue is the…
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Curaçao)
Date:
1732
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The interior of the wooden Horb synagogue (completed in 1735) is richly decorated in typical East European style, which, it seems, the artist Eliezer Zusman, originally from Brody, introduced to…
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Horb am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Marktzeuln, Germany)
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1735
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This synagogue, located in Carpentras, in Provence, was built in 1367 but went through serious repairs and was remodeled between 1741 and 1744 by a local civil engineer Antoine D’Allemand, in the…
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Artist Unknown
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Carpentras, Kingdom of France
(Carpentras, France)
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1741–1744
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This Piedmontese synagogue, built in 1595, is typical of many synagogues constructed in times and places where Jews did not want to call attention to themselves because of fear of persecution. From…
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Casale Monferrato, Kingdom of Sardinia
(Casale Monferrato, Italy)
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1595 and 1765
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Built in the seventeenth century by the prominent Ibn Danan family, the Ibn Danan synagogue is located in the oldest and largest Jewish quarter of Fez, Morocco. It is one of the few remaining old…
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Fez, Alawi Dynasty
(Fes, Morocco)
Date:
17th Century
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This exquisite synagogue, with Rococo gold wooden detailing, was originally located in in the village of Conegliano Veneto. Built in the sixteenth century, it was subsequently reassembled by the…
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Conegliano Veneto, Kingdom of Sardinia
(Conegliano, Italy)
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17th Century
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(Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1642
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These two lecterns are from Jablonów in the southern part of eastern Galicia and may have graced the town’s wooden synagogue, which was built as early as 1674. Carved from wood, and standing on two…
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Artist Unknown
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Jabłonów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Yablonov, Ukraine)
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17th or 18th Century
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Paper cuts were a distinctive Jewish folk art in Eastern Europe, where rural Poles and Ukrainians also practiced the craft. Jewish paper cuts had their own techniques and imagery and were used for…
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Late 19th Century
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The Great Synagogue of Slonim was one of the prominent synagogues of the region, a testament to the prosperity and status of the town’s Jewish community. Today, it is the best-preserved synagogue in…
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Slonim, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Slonim, Belarus)
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1635–1642