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Rema Synagogue (Kraków)
Artist Unknown
1553 and 1557
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This silver alms plate was likely used to collect donations in a synagogue. In the center is a boat, meant to represent Noah’s ark, a common image on Jewish alms containers. The Hebrew word for…
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