Yiddish Book of Customs

Photograph of room with large carved Torah ark with pews on either side of room and screened second-floor balcony.

Italian Synagogue, Conegliano Veneto, Italy

This exquisite synagogue, with Rococo gold wooden detailing, was originally located in in the village of Conegliano Veneto. Built in the sixteenth century, it was subsequently reassembled by the…

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To the Readers of Literarishe monatsshriften

Literature cannot survive, cannot develop freely and expansively, if it depends on an underdeveloped reader, if it satisfies the spiritual-aesthetic needs only of those who have no access to the…

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Painting of man in hat holding palette and looking at viewer.

Portrait of Marc Chagall

Yehudah Pen painted this portrait of Marc Chagall soon after Chagall returned to Vitebsk from Paris in order to marry his sweetheart, Bella. While he was there, World War I broke out, and Chagall was…

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Yiddish Book of Customs

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