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A lion drew his final breath,
And animals were bereft by his death.
There was no one to rule the realm,
So everyone wanted to take the helm.
When the animals realized their quandary,
They discussed…
Contributor:
Solomon Ettinger
Places:
Odesa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
Mid–19th century
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Carnes:The farmer and the cowman should be friends,
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.
One man likes to push a plough,
The other likes to chase a cow,
But that’s no reason why they cain…
Contributor:
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1943
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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)
Date:
ca. 1650
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This synagogue structure contains stunning samples of wood painting and folk motifs (including verses, images of Jerusalem, animals, and flowers). The panels were decorated by Eliezer Zusman, an…
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Unterlimpurg, Habsburg Empire
(Unterlimpurg, Germany)
Date:
1738/9
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The wooden synagogue in Chodorów, near Lvov, Poland (now Khodoriv, near Lviv, Ukraine), built in 1652, was destroyed by the Nazis. The austere outside—shown here in an early twentieth-century, black…
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Chodorów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Khodoriv, Ukraine)
Date:
1652 and 1714
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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)
Date:
1735