Portrait of Issachar Baer Teller

The Vittorio Veneto Synagogue, in a town near Venice, was constructed on the second and third floors of a modest house. Elements of the Italian Baroque style are visible in the interior, especially in…

Engravers Alexis Joseph Depaulis and Augustin Dupré collaborated on this remarkable Napoleonic-era medal that honored the Grand Sanhedrin, a representative body of seventy-one rabbis and Jewish…

According to the Hebrew inscription, this silk velvet, gilt silver-thread embroidery and silk brocade Torah wrapper was donated in 1727 or 1728 to the Scola Castigliana (a synagogue founded by Jews of…