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There were once hundreds of wooden synagogues in Poland and Lithuania, but only a very few examples of this particularly Jewish form of architecture have survived. The Zabłudów synagogue, built around…
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Zabludow, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Zabłudów, Poland)
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ca. 1637
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Joseph Avis, a Quaker carpenter, was commissioned to build the first synagogue in England following the readmission of Jews in 1656: the synagogue of London’s Spanish and Portuguese community, on…
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1699–1701
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The Yeshivat Dijet Synagogue was located in the Hara Seghira (the “small ghetto”) neighborhood of Djerba, Tunisia. It was one of several synagogues in this area, which, along with Hara Kebira, were…
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Djerba, Ottoman Empire (Djerba, Tunisia)
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End of the 17th Century
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Built in 1736, the Tzedek ve-Shalom synagogue served a Sephardic congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had migrated from Holland to Suriname. Located in Suriname’s capital of Paramaribo, the…
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Paramaribo, Dutch Colonial Empire (Paramaribo, Suriname)
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1736
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The gravestone of Judah Loew (1520–1609; known as the Maharal) and his wife, Pearl (1528–1610), is located in the Old Jewish Cemetery of the Jewish quarter in Prague. A prominent scholar and kabbalist…
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1609 and 1640
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The illustrations Tracht der Juden zu Worms (Jewish Men’s and Women’s Clothing in Worms) show a man and woman in typical Jewish fashion of the sixteenth century. The woman wears a white veil and…
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Worms, Habsburg Empire (Worms, Germany)
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16th Century
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Tzvi Hirsch ben Jacob Ashkenazi (ca. 1660–1718) was a talmudist and community leader from Moravia. Also known as the Ḥakham Tzvi, a Sephardic scholarly title he is thought to have received from the…
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1714
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Catherine da Costa
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1714
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Dannor
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1723
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Menachem Vivante (b. 1650) was a rabbi in Corfu in the eighteenth century and a member of a prominent merchant family. In this oil portrait, painted when he was eighty-five years old, he is depicted…
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Kérkyra (Corfu), Ottoman Empire (Corfu, Greece)
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1735