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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)
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1738/9
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Todros Geller
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Chicago, United States of America
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1928
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The Klausen Synagogue in Prague gets its name from the kloyz (a complex of buildings used for religious purposes, including synagogues) that originally stood on its site, erected in the 1570s. The…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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17th 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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Yosef Zaritsky
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1951
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The Old Synagogue (Alte-Schul, or Stara Bożnica) of Kraków is located in the Kazimierz district of the city. Because it was in a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth vulnerable to attack by…
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Artist Unknown
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1557–1570
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This Piedmontese synagogue, built in 1595, is typical of many synagogues constructed in times and places where Jews did not want to call attention to themselves because of fear of persecution. From…
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Casale Monferrato, Kingdom of Sardinia (Casale Monferrato, Italy)
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1595 and 1765