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Built in the seventeenth century, the Scuola Greca is a synagogue located in the area of the ghetto in which Jews were confined in 1622, in a neighborhood still known as “Evraiki” (Jews). It is the…
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Corfu, Ottoman Empire (Corfu, Greece)
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17th Century
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There were once hundreds of wooden synagogues in Poland and Lithuania, but only a very few examples of this particularly Jewish form of architecture have survived. The Zabłudów synagogue, built around…
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Zabludow, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Zabłudów, Poland)
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ca. 1637
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Joseph Avis, a Quaker carpenter, was commissioned to build the first synagogue in England following the readmission of Jews in 1656: the synagogue of London’s Spanish and Portuguese community, on…
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1699–1701
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The Yeshivat Dijet Synagogue was located in the Hara Seghira (the “small ghetto”) neighborhood of Djerba, Tunisia. It was one of several synagogues in this area, which, along with Hara Kebira, were…
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Djerba, Ottoman Empire (Djerba, Tunisia)
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End of the 17th Century
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Built in 1736, the Tzedek ve-Shalom synagogue served a Sephardic congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had migrated from Holland to Suriname. Located in Suriname’s capital of Paramaribo, the…
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Paramaribo, Dutch Colonial Empire (Paramaribo, Suriname)
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1736
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This Hanukkah Lamp from Poland is made from brass and would likely have been placed near the Torah ark in a synagogue. An engraved and cast eagle sits above a domed cupola, representing gratitude and…
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17th Century
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Scenes from everyday life are scarcely to be found in these pages. Rather you will feel that you have been transported for a while to some far-off, exotic country where different flowers grow and…
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Jirí Langer
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Prague, Czechoslovak Republic (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1937
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Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1683
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Let us begin with the most basic questions: Can oral traditions of music constitute a reliable source for historical research? While this question is applicable to most music…
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Edwin Seroussi
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Ramat Gan, Israel
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1996
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Jews, in the past celebrated for the ability to understand all things, are now in danger of being unable to understand anything at all culturally, for they do not have self-awareness. Without such…
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Aleksander Voronel
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1972