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Sender Jarmulowsky’s towering twelve-story Beaux Arts bank branch was located at 54–58 Canal Street on New York’s Lower East Side. When it was built, it was the tallest building in the neighborhood…
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Sender Jarmulowsky
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1912
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The Bechhofen Synagogue (built in 1685) is believed to have been the largest wooden synagogue in Germany. The interior of the synagogue was painted with lavish decorations in 1732 and 1733, in typical…
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Bechhofen, Holy Roman Empire (Bechhofen, Germany)
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1684
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This map, in a manuscript copy of Be’er mayim ḥayim (A Spring of Living Water), a commentary on Rashi published in Worms or Friedberg in the late fifteenth or sixteenth century, is based on Rashi’s…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Friedburg (Friedberg, Germany)
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Late 15th or 16th Century
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The Rema Synagogue, named after the famous rabbi and scholar Moses Isserles (known by the Hebrew acronym “Rema”), was built in 1553 in the city of Kazimierz (today a district of Kraków). It was…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1553 and 1557
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The Scuola Italiana is one of five synagogues in the Venetian ghetto, and its smallest. In 1575, the Italian Jewish community established the synagogue in a preexisting building because of a law…
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1575
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The Vittorio Veneto Synagogue, in a town near Venice, was constructed on the second and third floors of a modest house. Elements of the Italian Baroque style are visible in the interior, especially in…
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Serravalle, Republic of Venice (Vittorio Veneto, Italy)
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Mid–17th Century
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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…
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Artist Unknown
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Chodorów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Khodoriv, Ukraine)
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1652 and 1714
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The Óbuda Synagogue in Budapest is the oldest functioning synagogue in Hungary. The building was inaugurated in 1821. Its restrained, neoclassical aesthetic was consistent with popular architectural…
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Andreas Landesherr
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Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
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1820–1821
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The only image of the interior of the first synagogue of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, a congregation established in Charleston in 1749, is this picture, painted from memory by Solomon Nunes Carvalho. The…
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho
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Charleston, United States of America
Date:
1838
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Fanny Hensel (1805–1847), the granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and financier Daniel Itzig, and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was born in Hamburg into a wealthy…
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Julius Helfft
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1849