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The text on this inscription, dating from the establishment of the Rema Synagogue in Krákow, reads, in part: “The man, R. Israel ben Joseph (of blessed memory), gathered his strength, for the honor of…
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Artist Unknown
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1553
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Jules Lellouche painted the interior of this synagogue in Djerba during World War II, when Tunisia was ruled by Vichy France. Though Tunisia’s Jewish community escaped mass deportations and murder in…
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Jules Lellouche
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1939–1949
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Edouard Brandon’s painting of Amsterdam’s famous Portuguese Synagogue (1675) is set on the Ninth of Av, a fast day commemorating and mourning the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Members of the…
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Jacques-Émile-Édouard Brandon
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Paris, Second French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1867
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Although few examples of the work of embroiderer Jacob Koppel Gans remain, he is best known for this Torah ark curtain and valance, dating to 1772 or 1773, made of velvet and embroidered with metallic…
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Jacob Koppel Gans
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Holy Roman Empire (Bavaria, Germany)
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1772–1773
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The purpose of the Torah crown is visually to augment the status of the Torah scroll, emphasizing its importance and centrality to Jewish life. These magnificent silver ornaments are placed over the…
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Wilhelmus Angenendt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1809
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I. W. Loewenbach’s medal commemorating the dedication of the new synagogue in Munich (1826) is among the earliest German synagogue medals. On one side of the medal, one sees the façade of the…
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I. W. Loewenbach
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Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1826
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The origin of this Torah scroll is in Turkey. It was donated by the Camondo family, one of the most important Jewish families in Istanbul, many of whose members settled in Paris and greatly…
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Artist Unknown
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1860
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The august synagogue in Mainz, erected on Hindenburgstrasse in 1911–1912, included a central, circular nave with a large dome and side wings housing a weekday synagogue, community rooms, wedding hall…
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Willy Graf
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Mainz, German Empire (Mainz, Germany)
Date:
1911
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Issachar Ber Ryback’s drawings of the painted ceiling of what was known as the Cold Synagogue in Mogilev (today in Belarus) are among the few visual records of the work of the painter Chaim ben…
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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1916
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Wooden synagogues were a distinctive style of vernacular architecture that first developed in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth century and then flourished in the…
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Photographer Unknown
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Gwoździec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Hvizdets, Ukraine)
Date:
Mid–17th Century