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The Kinah [Lament] in Honor of Those Who Died in the Earthquake
Wail O [professional female] mourners for the suffering of our death.
The earth trembled with the earthquakes. We lost young and old…
Contributor:
Eliezer Farḥi
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1909
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Józef Awin’s reconstruction of the synagogue in the Old Cemetery of Lwów/L’viv, featured here, reflects his clean geometricity and appreciation for Galician wooden synagogue architecture. The cemetery…
Contributor:
Józef Awin
Places:
Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1909
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Die Erschaffung des Menschen (The Creation of Man) is an illustration by Ephraim Moses Lilien for the 1902 German translation of the Yiddish poems of Morris Rosenfeld, Lieder des Ghetto (Songs of the…
Contributor:
Ephraim Moses Lilien
Places:
Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1902
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This remarkable illustration is at the same time a shiviti—traditionally, a decorative plaque bearing the verse: “I am ever mindful of the Lord’s presence”—and a topographic map of the land of Israel…
Contributor:
Moses Ganbash
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1838–1839
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This kiddush cup and wine carafe by the master glass engraver Daniel Henriques de Castro displays his delicate technique, known as stippling. Though it is most common for kiddush cups, used for the…
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Daniel Henriques de Castro
Places:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
ca. 1860
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The Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, is home to the second-oldest congregation in the United States. As Sephardic Jews began emigrating from the Caribbean to colonial America in the…
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Peter Harrison
Places:
Newport, British America and the British West Indies (Newport, United States of America)
Date:
1763
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Embracing couple in ivory inlay, Ugarit, 14th century BCE. This ivory inlay decorated the royal bed from the court of the kings of Ugarit (Syria). The woman has her left arm around the man and with…
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Ugarit, Ugarit (Latakia, Syria)
Date:
14th Century BCE
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This Torah ark curtain from Gördes, Turkey, features an archway flanked on either side with double columns and a hanging lamp, a motif common to both Islamic prayer rugs and mats and Ottoman Torah ark…
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Artist Unknown
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Gördes, Ottoman Empire (Gördes, Turkey)
Date:
Late 18th–Early 19th Century
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This Torah binder, made for boys at birth and later brought by young men as a symbol of participation in the synagogue, illustrates the fixed nature of traditional gender expectations.
Contributor:
Koppel ben Moses Heller
Places:
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (Munich, Germany)
Date:
1814
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This silver beaker is one of two commissioned by the Burial Society of Worms in the eighteenth century. Beakers were used at the ceremony inducting members into the society at its annual banquet…
Contributor:
Johann Conrad Weiss
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1711/1712