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The ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, it outlines the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and is written in Aramaic. This printed ketubah created by…
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Zemah Davidsohn
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1863
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Designed in the German neoclassical style, the Wörlitz synagogue was modeled on Rome’s Temple of Vesta, featuring a circular building with a conical roof. It was commissioned by Prince Leopold…
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff
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Wörlitz, Holy Roman Empire (Wörlitz, Germany)
Date:
1789–1790
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Janów, Poland, was home to a unique wooden synagogue. The town was settled by Jews toward the end of the seventeenth century, and, by 1739, the Jewish population formed the majority of the town’s…
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Artist Unknown
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Yanuv, Russian Empire (Janów, Poland)
Date:
1700s
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The Grand Synagogue of Lyon was built shortly after the establishment of a regional consistory by Emperor Napoleon III and the appointment of a regional chief rabbi. In 1858, a new synagogue for the…
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Abraham Hirsch
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Lyon, Second French Empire (Lyon, France)
Date:
1863–1864
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This postage stamp with an image of King Leopold I of Belgium was the first stamp issued on the European continent.
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Jacques Wiener
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Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium)
Date:
1849
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[ . . . ] [A]n Ashkenazic sage came to Ṣanʿāʾ in the time of Sar Shalom al-ʿIrāqī (d. 1780) . . . and stayed at his house and ate at his table. Fearing for the Ashkenazi’s life, Sar Shalom told him…
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Ḥayim Ḥabshūsh
Places:
Sana'a, Ottoman Empire (Sanaa, Yemen)
Date:
1894