Creator Bio
Israel ben Mordechai Lisnicki
18th Century
Israel ben Mordechai Lisnicki was an artist from Jaryczow (now Novyi Yarychiv, Ukraine) who painted the walls and ceilings in at least two synagogues.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Synagogue (Gwoździec, Poland)
The wooden synagogue in Gwoździec, eastern Galicia (modern-day Poland), was one of more than two hundred wooden synagogues that existed in Poland before World War II. Wooden synagogues were a…
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Chodorów Synagogue (Poland)
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…