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Yeshivat Dijet Synagogue (Djerba, Tunisia)
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The Yeshivat Dijet Synagogue was located in the Hara Seghira (the “small ghetto”) neighborhood of Djerba, Tunisia. It was one of several synagogues in this area, which, along with Hara Kebira, were…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Djerba, Ottoman Empire (Djerba, Tunisia)

Date:

End of the 17th Century

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Scholarship, Art, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
Exterior photograph of stone building with arched windows, wraparound patio with stone columns, and dirt ground.
Seal of the Jewish Publication Society of America
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The Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) was founded in Philadelphia in 1888. (It had a number of precursors that did not last.) Today, JPS is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher…

Contributor:

Moses Ezekiel

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Israel/Israelis, Diaspora, Aesthetics, Scholarship

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Drawing of a round seal with lion, lamb, child, snake, and Star of David which reads in English, "Israel's Mission is Peace."
The Cooperative Courtyard Plan, Merhavia Educational Farm
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In his design for the Merhavia cooperative farm (kibbutz), Alexander Baerwald arranged one-story residential buildings and a two-story main building, used for storage and equipment, around a central…

Contributor:

Alexander Baerwald

Places:

Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)

Date:

ca. 1912

Subjects:

Education, Cities, Scholarship, Aesthetics, Technology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Illustration of open square surrounded by buildings and fields.
Cover Design for Istoria evreiskogo naroda
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Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer’s cover design for Istoria evreiskago naroda (History of the Jewish People) features a title with dramatically stylized letters and a gold and black pattern that evokes…

Contributor:

Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer

Places:

Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Aesthetics, Language and linguistics, Scholarship

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Page with repeating flora motif and Russian title.