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Doors to the Bimah, Rema Synagogue (Krakow)
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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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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

Early 18th Century

Subjects:

Synagogue, Ritual object, Ritual & observance, Art, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
Set of curved doors with carving of peacock-shaped pitcher filled with foliage and fruit extending to top of door.
Cover, Di malke Shvo: dramatishe poeme
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In 1920 and 1921, Broderzon, the guiding force of Yung-yidish (Young Yiddish), a literary and artistic group he co-founded in Łódź, published over half a dozen books of poetry and plays. Prolific and…

Contributor:

Moyshe Broderzon

Places:

Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)

Date:

1921

Subjects:

Women, Poetry, Print, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Print of two geometric figures with Yiddish heading underneath.
Synagogue (Gwoździec, Poland)
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The wooden synagogue in Gwoździec, eastern Galicia (modern-day Poland), was one of more than two hundred wooden synagogues that existed in Poland before World War II. Wooden synagogues were a…

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Isaac Ber and His Son, Isaac ben Judah Leib ha-Kohen, Israel ben Mordechai Lisnicki

Places:

Gwoździec, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Gwoździec, Poland)

Date:

ca. 1650

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Animals, Art, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
Photograph of wooden building exterior with several layers of roofs.