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This Torah mantle was made in Vienna in the eighteenth century. It is embroidered with silk and metallic thread, metallic ribbon, and has metallic fringes. Set against a red background, this mantle’s…
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Artist Unknown
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1722/3
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The city of N. is built in three rings. First ring: the marketplace at the very center. Second: surrounding the market, the great city proper with its many houses, streets, byways, back…
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Der Nister
Date:
1939
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Contributor:
Fritz Landauer
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Plauen, Weimar Republic (Plauen, Germany)
Date:
1928–1930
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This was not a very big courtyard, a longish but narrow one, like hundreds of others of this type in the thickly settled part of Jewish Warsaw. One side, the innermost one, was a two-story…
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Avrom Teytlboym
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1947
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Percival Goodman
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Millburn, United States of America
Date:
1951
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This glimpse into an eighteenth-century German Jewish marriage ceremony offers an opportunity to consider how gender roles have changed for this vital ritual.
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Artist Unknown
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Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
Date:
1748
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Esther Oppenheim
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New York, British America and the British West Indies (New York City, United States of America)
Date:
1730 and 1818
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Ludwig Förster
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Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1854–1859
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Leon I. Bakhman, Ivan I. Shaposhnikov
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1893