Group of Soldiers

Painting of room featuring columns along side walls and second floor balcony, central podium, and Torah ark.

Interior of the Beth Elohim Synagogue Charleston, South Carolina (Solomon Nunes Carvalho)

The only image of the interior of the first synagogue of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, a congregation established in Charleston in 1749, is this picture, painted from memory by Solomon Nunes Carvalho. The…

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Pair of finials with crowns of bells on branches.

Torah Finials

These belled, gilt-silver Torah finials topped with crowns were made in Amsterdam by master silversmith Pieter van Hoven, who lived near the Jewish quarter and is best known for the Jewish ceremonial…

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Buying a Newspaper

Jacob Epstein, “Buying a Newspaper,” from Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. Epstein was best-known for his sculptures, but he also created the…

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Interior of the Beth Elohim Synagogue Charleston, South Carolina (Solomon Nunes Carvalho)

Torah Finials

Buying a Newspaper