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This paper cut, commemorating the anniversary of a date of death, originates from Galicia.
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Artist Unknown
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(Galicia, Ukraine)
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1867–1880
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Smotrych, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Smotrych, Ukraine)
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1744
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(Lviv, Ukraine)
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1642
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These two lecterns are from Jablonów in the southern part of eastern Galicia and may have graced the town’s wooden synagogue, which was built as early as 1674. Carved from wood, and standing on two…
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Artist Unknown
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Jabłonów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Yablonov, Ukraine)
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17th or 18th Century
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While ketubot (marriage contracts) are usually written in Aramaic, Karaite ketubot are written in Hebrew. They are often pentagonal in shape, most often with a pointed bottom. This example has a…
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Artist Unknown
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Chufut-Kale, Russian Empire
(Hora Chufutkale, Ukraine)
Date:
1719
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Bruno Schulz
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Drohobych, Second Polish Republic
(Drohobych, Ukraine)
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1920
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Gwoździec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Hvizdets, Ukraine)
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Mid–17th Century.
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Lutsk (Łuck), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Lutsk, Ukraine)
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17th Century
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Bruno Schulz
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1941–1942
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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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Chodorów, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Khodoriv, Ukraine)
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1652 and 1714