Alms Plate

Photograph of room with decorated ceiling, central platform with wrought-iron gate, and bookshelf on far wall.

Rema Synagogue (Kraków)

The Rema Synagogue, named after the famous rabbi and scholar Moses Isserles (known by the Hebrew acronym “Rema”), was built in 1553 in the city of Kazimierz (today a district of Kraków). It was…

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Small rectangular building made of steel and concrete with double doors on square base next to city buildings.

Holocaust Memorial, Judenplatz, Vienna, Austria

Whiteread’s memorial for Austrian Jewish victims of the Holocaust is located in Vienna in a square known as the Judenplatz. Sometimes called the Nameless Library, the steel and concrete structure has…

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Monument depicting curved, stylized figure with head in hands set among flowers in a grassy park with a house in the background.

The Formula of Grief

Vadim Sidur was sometimes called “the Soviet Henry Moore” because of the similarities between his aesthetic and those of the British artist. In Sidur’s native Soviet Union, however, his work was…

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