Scuola Greca (Corfu)

Crown carved with decorative motifs and inlaid with precious stones.

Torah Crown

This partially gilt-silver Torah crown from Poland is studded with semi-precious stones. Its two-tiered base is typical of Torah crowns from Eastern Europe. It is inscribed in Hebrew with the words,…

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Photograph depicting a crowd of people holding a long ribbon with Russian text on it.

Protest at the Funeral of Anti-Tsarist Revolutionaries

This postcard was printed by the Bund to commemorate the death of a worker, Kagan (Kohen), who was arrested in Mozir (today, Mazyr, Belarus) in the midst of one of the numerous protests against the…

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Monument featuring several stelae of different heights set along a rocky cave.

Yad Vashem Children’s Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem, Israel

In 1976, Safdie was appointed by Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority to design a museum at Yad Vashem devoted to the 1.5 million children who were murdered in the Holocaust…

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