Great Synagogue (Slonim, Belarus)

Exterior photograph of street with several buildings on left and one on right.

Great Synagogue (Lutsk, Ukraine)

The Great Synagogue of Lutsk (Łuck) in Ukraine was built in 1626. Renaissance in style, the synagogue is an example of a fortress synagogue, built not only as a house of worship but also with the…

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Force Fields: Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique

Leaving the museum, our small party walked the fifteen minutes out of the center of town it takes to get to the business end of Theresienstadt, the so-called “Small Fortress.” First constructed in the…

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Painting of woman holding baby on bench next to columned doorway as another woman leans over her.

Portrait of Rachel da Costa with the Child Catharina Suasso

Here, Catherine da Costa, the first known female Jewish painter, has painted her daughter and granddaughter to resemble a Madonna and child. An unidentified woman leans over the infant, seemingly…

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Great Synagogue (Slonim, Belarus)

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