Ishtar Gate and Processional Avenue

Embroidered curtain of columns with crowns on left and right sides and decorative floral motifs throughout, and Hebrew text in top center.

Torah Curtain

This Torah curtain was donated to the Altneuschul (Staranova Synagogue) in Prague in 1602 by Natan ben Issachar (called Karpel Zaks), and Hadassi bat Moses, who commissioned it, as attested to by its…

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Photograph of wooden structure with two small columns of Hebrew writing with crown on top, and two sculped lions on either side.

A Fragment of the Altar of a Synagogue in Mariampol

The Torah ark in the synagogue of Mariampol was surmounted by tablets of the law flanked by rampant lions and topped with a crown, with hands making the priestly blessing. After World War II, Soviet…

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Photograph of building with stone wall and cylindrical window; photograph of stone wall building exterior with triangular balconies.

Schocken Library, Jerusalem

In 1934, the German-Jewish entrepreneur and philanthropist Salman Schocken (1877–1959) commissioned Mendelsohn to design a villa for him and his family in Jerusalem, where they had fled from Nazi…

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