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In 1906, the Ahuzat Bayit (homestead) society was created in Jaffa by members of the Yishuv (the Jewish community of Palestine) as a planned “Hebrew” community, designed in accordance with the latest…
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Tel Aviv, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1910
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Elizabeth Street 10b is a stunning example of the Jugendstil style for which the buildings designed by Mikhail Eisenstein are known. The façade of this apartment building is built of brown stone…
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Mikhail Eisenstein
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Riga, Russian Empire (Riga, Latvia)
Date:
1903
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In this photograph, David Goldblatt captured a Black family newly arrived in Johannesburg, looking small and vulnerable as they pass the tall pole of a streetlamp, with massive buildings looming…
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David Goldblatt
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Johannesburg, South Africa
Date:
1950–1960
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Though construction ended in 1888 after eight years, the neo-Byzantine and Moorish revival Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg was not consecrated until 1893. The grand, imposing building, which…
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Leon I. Bakhman, Ivan I. Shaposhnikov
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1893