Kadavumbagam Synagogue, Cochin, India

Photograph of room with arched stone doorways and central wooden platform.

Old Synagogue (Kai Vjezu), Sarajevo

The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…

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Painting of man in beard and glasses set inside an ornate frame with decorated border.

Self-Portrait

Schatz, a founder of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, painted this self-portrait around the time the school was temporarily forced to close because of a lack of funds. He has depicted himself in…

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Painting of two young women next to low wall and a hunched-over man in sidelocks and hat looking at them.

The Meeting: A Jewish Youth and Two Women in an Urban Alley

The Meeting, Schulz’s only surviving oil painting, obliquely explores a theme he returned to many times in his writing and art, namely, sadomasochism, this time in the context of an encounter between…

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Kadavumbagam Synagogue, Cochin, India

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