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Congregation Shearith Israel was the first Jewish congregation established in North America, and the only Jewish congregation in New York City from 1654 until 1825. Between 1654 and 1730, it used…
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Esther Oppenheim
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New York, British America and the British West Indies (New York City, United States of America)
Date:
1730 and 1818
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The Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest is the largest synagogue in Europe, and the second largest in the world, capable of accommodating three thousand people. The Moorish- and Byzantine-inspired…
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Ludwig Förster
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Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1854–1859
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In this baroque Christian altarpiece that Anton Raphael Mengs painted for the Catholic church, the Colegiata of Castrojeriz, which is near Burgos, Spain, the Madonna is holding an open book. The angel…
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Anton Raphael Mengs
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Madrid, Spanish Empire (Madrid, Spain)
Date:
1767
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Salamone de Rossi (1570–1630), composer, singer, violinist, and musician in the Gonzaga court in Mantua, is best known for his introduction of polyphony into synagogue music. Composer Samuel Naumbourg…
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Samuel Naumbourg
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1876
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The first edition of Baal T’fillah was published in 1871. A compendium of over 1,500 Jewish traditional melodies, according to the traditions of German, Polish, and Portuguese (Sephardic) Jews, the…
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Abraham Baer
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Gothenburg, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (Göteborg, Sweden)
Date:
1877
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In this table, giving the notation for chanting the Torah, the musical notes indicate the melody of each cantillation mark, while the Hebrew words below them indicate the name and shape of the mark.
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ca. 1611
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We Jews, the first nation in the world that began not only to mark but also to appraise and to judge the generations, evaluate eras on the basis of different criteria, namely, how much refinement is…
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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CharactersMaenoyakh, an old citizen of BethlehemShulamis, his daughterAvisholom, a young hero descended from the Maccabees.
Avisholom
I shall not leave here until I have rested
Jerusalem…
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Abraham Goldfaden
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Iasi, Kingdom of Romania (Iasi, Romania)
Briarcliff Manor, United States of America
Date:
1881
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Aaron:
It’s all a plain lie. It’s because our Jews throughout the land in the little villages are so primitive, so stupid, they can’t even read. Anyone will tell them the most absurd things and they…
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Israel Aksenfeld
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Leipzig, Kingdom of Prussia (Leipzig, Germany)
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Mid-19th Century
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Torah finials are a pair of ornaments used to decorate the upper ends of the rollers on which the Torah scroll is wound. The Hebrew term rimonim, which means “pomegranates,” references the…
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Myer Myers
Places:
Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies (Philadelphia, United States of America)
Date:
1776