Wooden Synagogue in Polish Lithuania

Etching of ceremony under marriage canopy outside a building, surrounded by people and framed by decorative motif.

Huppah

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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Computer reconstruction of stone crenellations with three stacked stone blocks.

Crenellation from Ramat Rahel Palace

Several stone crenellations, like the one shown in this computer reconstruction, with each of the upper layers shorter and narrower than the one below, were found broken into pieces at the palace at…

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Manuscript scroll page of Hebrew text with illustrated figures, one on horseback, on top.

Scroll of the Book of Esther

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Wooden Synagogue in Polish Lithuania

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