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Synagogue of the Old Cemetery of Lemberg (L'viv) (Reconstruction)
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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

Subjects:

Art, Synagogue, Cities, Aesthetics, Jewish identity

Categories:

Architecture, Cartooning & graphic art
Illustration of large building set along row of smaller buildings and trees.
Lecterns (Jablonów)
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These two lecterns are from Jablonów in the southern part of eastern Galicia and may have graced the town’s wooden synagogue, which was built as early as 1674. Carved from wood, and standing on two…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Jabłonów, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Yablonov, Ukraine)

Date:

17th or 18th Century

Subjects:

Synagogue, Sermons, Aesthetics, Crafts, Animals

Categories:

Decorative arts, Sermons
Wooden lectern with stork carving.
Lazar Brodsky Choral Synagogue
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The Lazar Brodsky Choral Synagogue is built in the Romanesque revival style, with elements of Moorish revival. It is known as the Brodsky Choral Synagogue because it was built on the estate of the…

Contributor:

Georgiy Schleifer

Places:

Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1898

Subjects:

Art, Photography, Synagogue, Cities, Jewish identity

Categories:

Architecture
Photograph of exterior of building with rounded window frames and decorative columns, and man in hat walking toward it.