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This image depicts the interior of the synagogue that served the Beth Israel congregation in Amsterdam. Before 1639, there were three Sephardic congregations in Amsterdam: Beth Jacob (founded possibly…
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Jan Veenhuyzen
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1647
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Originating from the Iberian Peninsula, the de Pinto family were wealthy merchant bankers who lived in Amsterdam from the seventeenth century on. In Spain, members of the family had converted to…
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Abraham Rademaker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1730/1
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This map showing the Naḥmanides Synagogue in Jerusalem, named after the medieval rabbi, was made in Italy by a Jewish scribe and is an example of a “pilgrimage scroll.” Pilgrimage scrolls were known…
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Artist Unknown
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16th Century
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The wooden synagogue in Gwozńdziec, eastern Galicia (modern-day Ukraine), was one of more than two hundred wooden synagogues that existed in Poland before World War II. Such synagogues were popular…
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Gwoździec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Gwoździec, Poland)
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ca. 1650
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This synagogue structure contains stunning samples of wood painting and folk motifs (including verses, images of Jerusalem, animals, and flowers). The panels were decorated by Eliezer Zusman, an…
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Unterlimpurg, Habsburg Empire (Unterlimpurg, Germany)
Date:
1738/9
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Around the time of his move to Amsterdam, the Dutch painter Emanuel de Witte began to produce architectural paintings, particularly of church interiors and other grand buildings. He was interested in…
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Emanuel de Witte
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1680
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Kikar Levana is an environmental sculpture in Tel Aviv, located on a hill in Edith Wolfson Park. Commissioned to commemorate the builders of the city, its simple geometrical shapes and white concrete…
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Dani Karavan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1977–1988
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Liebeskind’s design for a new extension to the Berlin Jewish Museum was the winner of a 1989 competition and was the first of his designs to be built. Its zigzagging shape was intended to evoke the…
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Daniel Libeskind
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
2001
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Kneseth Eliyahoo was endowed in honor of Baghdad-born Eliyahoo (Elias) David Sassoon (1820–1880), son of textile magnate David Sassoon (1792–1864), by Elias’s sons. The synagogue was constructed in…
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Bombay, British India (Mumbai, India)
Date:
1884
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The synagogue in Subotica (today in Serbia), is the second-largest synagogue in Europe and a rare existing example of an art-nouveau synagogues. Its interior features elaborately glazed ceramics and…
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Marcell Komor, Jakab Dezső
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Subotica, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Subotica, Serbia)
Date:
1901–1902