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The Kinah [Lament] in Honor of Those Who Died in the Earthquake
Wail O [professional female] mourners for the suffering of our death.
The earth trembled with the earthquakes. We lost young and old…
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Eliezer Farḥi
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1909
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Terra-cotta pillar figurines are found throughout the biblical territory of Judah and date to the eighth to seventh centuries BCE. Most were decorated with a white background layer and one or more…
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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lakhish, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB–IIC, 8th–7th Century BCE
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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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Abraham Rademaker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1730/1
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1579/1580
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Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch
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Gross Meseritsch, Holy Roman Empire (Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic)
Date:
1728
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Rembrandt van Rijn
Date:
1647
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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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Three representatives of the Prague Burial Society in the 1730s are pictured in these portraits: Jonas Jeitteles (1735–1806, the community’s official physician), Rabbi Leib Fayvel Dayan (another…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1733