High Synagogue (Krakow)

Print with small Hebrew text arranged in the shape of a columned building, with a ribbon of text and two fish in the center.

Purim Page (Mi-she-nikhnas adar)

This lithograph of a micrographic drawing, believed to be from Poland, reproduces the text of the scroll of Esther in its entirety, as well as prayers and poems for the holiday of Purim. In the center…

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Bom Retiro, or The Childhood Neighborhood

Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah, the so-called “Days of Awe” arrived. There was no Jew in all of Bom Retiro who, God forbid, would ever think of not observing them. Any endeavor, no matter how important…

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Photograph featuring shadow of a face and a hand over a wall with Hebrew text.

Shadow and Synagogue

Shadow and Synagogue is one of a series of about one hundred photographs by Tress that appear in his 1975 book, Shadow, A Novel in Photographs. In the book’s visual narrative, the photographer’s…

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High Synagogue (Krakow)

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