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This exquisite synagogue, with Rococo gold wooden detailing, was originally located in in the village of Conegliano Veneto. Built in the sixteenth century, it was subsequently reassembled by the…
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Conegliano Veneto, Kingdom of Sardinia (Conegliano, Italy)
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17th Century
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The Great Synagogue of Slonim was one of the prominent synagogues of the region, a testament to the prosperity and status of the town’s Jewish community. Today, it is the best-preserved synagogue in…
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Slonim, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Slonim, Belarus)
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1635–1642
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Before World War I, Bomberg depicted the East End of London, where he had grown up, as a site of immigrant vitality. After a harrowing experience in the trenches and difficulties after the war…
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David Bomberg
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London, United Kingdom
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1920
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This watercolor sketch of uprooted Jews arriving in the Warsaw Ghetto was one of many artworks Rynecki made while incarcerated there. Before the war, many of his paintings documented the vibrancy of…
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Moshe Rynecki
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1939
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Trapped in Lithuania by the German invasion of Soviet-controlled territory while visiting her sister in Kaunas (Kovno) in 1941, Esther Lurie was imprisoned in a ghetto along with the rest of the city…
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Esther Lurie
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1942
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In the Terezin concentration camp, before a visit by the International Red Cross and the Danish Red Cross in 1944, the Nazis created an elaborate ruse, designed to convince the delegation that the…
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Bedrich Fritta
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1943–1944
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Jacob Epstein, “Buying a Newspaper,” from Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. Epstein was best-known for his sculptures, but he also created the…
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Jacob Epstein
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1902