Showing Results 11 - 20 of 25
Public Access
Image
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…
Places:
Gwoździec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Gwoździec, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1650
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
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…
Places:
Unterlimpurg, Habsburg Empire (Unterlimpurg, Germany)
Date:
1738/9
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
This spoon from Hazor has a wide handle intricately incised on its front with a sequence of palmettes curving upward instead of the more common downward-turning volutes. The spoon’s use is unclear. It…
Places:
Hazor, Land of Israel (Tel Hazor, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age II, 8th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
In this ivory inlay, found in Jerusalem (Ophel), incised lines indicate the goat’s fur, especially around the neck, and deeper lines detail the legs. The goat’s feet are all very close together…
Places:
Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age IIA, 10th–9th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
The primary register of this handle from Hazor shows two grazing caprids (perhaps deer or gazelles), a popular motif (see “Bulla of Shebanyahu Son of Samak, with Grazing Doe”). Beneath them is a…
Places:
Hazor, Land of Israel (Tel Hazor, Israel)
Date:
Iron Age IIB, first Half of 8th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Date:
Iron Age II, 8th–7th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
The wooden synagogue in Chodorów, near Lvov, Poland (now Khodoriv, near Lviv, Ukraine), built in 1652, was destroyed by the Nazis. The austere outside—shown here in an early twentieth-century, black…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Chodorów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Khodoriv, Ukraine)
Date:
1652 and 1714
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Paper cuts were a distinctive Jewish folk art in Eastern Europe, where rural Poles and Ukrainians also practiced the craft. Jewish paper cuts had their own techniques and imagery and were used for…
Date:
Late 19th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Date:
Iron Age II, 8th–7th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1750