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The origin of this Torah scroll is in Turkey. It was donated by the Camondo family, one of the most important Jewish families in Istanbul, many of whose members settled in Paris and greatly…
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1860
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The august synagogue in Mainz, erected on Hindenburgstrasse in 1911–1912, included a central, circular nave with a large dome and side wings housing a weekday synagogue, community rooms, wedding hall…
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Willy Graf
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Mainz, German Empire (Mainz, Germany)
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1911
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Issachar Ber Ryback’s drawings of the painted ceiling of what was known as the Cold Synagogue in Mogilev (today in Belarus) are among the few visual records of the work of the painter Chaim ben…
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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
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1916
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Wooden synagogues were a distinctive style of vernacular architecture that first developed in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth century and then flourished in the…
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Photographer Unknown
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Gwoździec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Hvizdets, Ukraine)
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Mid–17th Century
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Question: I was asked by the leaders of the holy congregation of Prostějov: A small piece of paper on which was drawn the image of a menorah, with the verses beginning “May God be gracious to us” from…
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Menaḥem Mendl Krochmal
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Nikolsburg, Holy Roman Empire (Mikulov, Czech Republic)
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Before 1661
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Concerning the origin of the religion of Israel [Yi-tz’ u-lo-yeh], it has come from a distant past.
It began with Adam [A-tan], who was a descendant of P’an-ku in the nineteenth generation, and it was…
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Unknown
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Kaifeng, Qing Dynasty (Kaifeng, China)
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1663
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Jews first settled in Kaifeng, the capital of Henan province in central China, before 1127. According to scholars, they had come from India or Persia, spoke Persian, and worked as cotton dyers and…
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Kaifeng, Qing Dynasty (Kaifeng, China)
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1722
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Question: A woman pledged, when she lay ill, to give her disukia, which is embroidered with gilt silver thread, to be made into a ceremonial object for the synagogue. The disukia is what is called in…
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Yair Ḥayim Bacharach
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Date:
1699
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The Great Synagogue of Lutsk (Łuck) in Ukraine was built in 1626. Renaissance in style, the synagogue is an example of a fortress synagogue, built not only as a house of worship but also with the…
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Artist Unknown
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Lutsk (Łuck), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lutsk, Ukraine)
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17th Century
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I received your inquiry in which you asked me to express my opinion . . . concerning a curtain with multicolored images that was designated a Torah curtain, and which has been used for some time for…
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Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
1732