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The Great Synagogue of Slonim was one of the prominent synagogues of the region, a testament to the prosperity and status of the town’s Jewish community. Today, it is the best-preserved synagogue in…
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Artist Unknown
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Slonim, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Slonim, Belarus)
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1635–1642
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The Mikve Israel-Emanuel is a synagogue that served the Spanish Portuguese Jewish community in Curaçao (and continues to function today as a Reconstructionist congregation). This synagogue is the…
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)
Date:
1732
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The interior of the wooden Horb synagogue (completed in 1735) is richly decorated in typical East European style, which artist Eliezer Zusman, originally from Brody, introduced to southern Germany…
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Eliezer Zusman of Brody
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Horb am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Marktzeuln, Germany)
Date:
1735
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This synagogue, located in Carpentras, in Provence, was built in 1367 but went through serious repairs and was remodeled between 1741 and 1744 by a local civil engineer Antoine D’Allemand, in the…
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Artist Unknown
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Carpentras, France
Date:
1741–1744
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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