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This print depicting a service in the synagogue in Fürth is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400 Jewish…
Contributor:
Johannes Alexander Böner
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705
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This illustration depicting a Jewish betrothal ceremony appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to Christianity. The first…
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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1724
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This illustration depicting Rosh Hashanah services in a synagogue appeared in the book Jüdisches Ceremoniel (Jewish Ceremonial Customs), by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to Christianity…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1724
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz’s Kirchliche Verfassung der heutigen Juden, sonderlich derer in Deutschland (Religious Constitution of Today’s Jews, Especially Those in Germany), published in…
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz, Georg Paul Nusbiegel
Places:
Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1748/9
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This engraving of the interior of the Alte Synagoge (Synagogue) in Berlin is based on a drawing by Anna M. Werner. It was the first edifice in Berlin built specifically to serve this function…
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1712/14 and 1720
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This seventeenth-century silver repoussé and partly gilt Torah shield from Germany is inlaid with semi-precious stones. In the center of the shield appear the ten commandments in a Hebrew inscription…
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Artist Unknown
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17th Century
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This silver-gilt cup is decorated with representations of the biblical patriarch Jacob’s twelve sons, each standing in his own separate archway with his Hebrew name inscribed underneath. This cup was…
Contributor:
Elkana Schatz Naumberg
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Kriegshaber, Holy Roman Empire (Kriegshaber, Germany)
Date:
1724
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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…
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Unterlimpurg, Habsburg Empire (Unterlimpurg, Germany)
Date:
1738/9
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Vilna, my great matriarch, an established Jewish city,
Jerusalem of the Exile, an ancient nation’s consolation in the north!
This [poem] is your patched kerchief, like the roof of the old synagogue,…
Contributor:
Zalman Shneour
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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Designed in the German neoclassical style, the Wörlitz synagogue was modeled on Rome’s Temple of Vesta, featuring a circular building with a conical roof. It was commissioned by Prince Leopold…
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff
Places:
Wörlitz, Holy Roman Empire (Wörlitz, Germany)
Date:
1789–1790