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Janów, Poland, was home to a unique wooden synagogue. The town was settled by Jews toward the end of the seventeenth century, and, by 1739, the Jewish population formed the majority of the town’s…
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Artist Unknown
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Yanuv, Russian Empire (Janów, Poland)
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1700s
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The Grand Synagogue of Lyon was built shortly after the establishment of a regional consistory by Emperor Napoleon III and the appointment of a regional chief rabbi. In 1858, a new synagogue for the…
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Abraham Hirsch
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Lyon, France
Date:
1863–1864
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Édouard Moyse’s painting portrays the Grand Sanhedrin, the Jewish high court assembled by Napoleon in 1807 to ratify the answers of an assembly of Jewish communal leaders to twelve questions submitted…
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Édouard Moyse
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Paris, France
Date:
1867
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An eruv (or eruv ḥatserot, merger of domains) is a symbolic expansion of an area outside a single home into a larger private domain. Within that eruv, certain activities prohibited in the public…
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Artist Unknown
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Central Europe)
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18th Century
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The second-oldest building in the Venetian ghetto is the Scuola Canton Synagogue. Built several years after the Scuola Grande Tedesca, the Canton Synagogue also served the Ashkenazic community. The…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1532
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The Old Synagogue (Alte-Schul, or Stara Bożnica) of Kraków is located in the Kazimierz district of the city. Because it was in a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth vulnerable to attack by…
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Matteo Gucci
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1557–1570
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The Scuola Italiana is one of five synagogues in the Venetian ghetto, and its smallest. In 1575, the Italian Jewish community established the synagogue in a preexisting building because of a law…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1575
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The Vittorio Veneto Synagogue, in a town near Venice, was constructed on the second and third floors of a modest house. Elements of the Italian Baroque style are visible in the interior, especially in…
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Artist Unknown
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Serravalle, Venice (Vittorio Veneto, Italy)
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Mid–17th Century
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The wooden synagogue in Chodorów, near Lvov, Poland (now Khodoriv, near Lviv, Ukraine), built in 1652, was destroyed by the Nazis. The austere outside—shown here in an early twentieth-century, black…
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Israel ben Mordechai Lisnicki
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Chodorów, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Khodoriv, Ukraine)
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1652 and 1714
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The Óbuda Synagogue in Budapest is the oldest functioning synagogue in Hungary. The building was inaugurated in 1821. Its restrained, neoclassical aesthetic was consistent with popular architectural…
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Andreas Landesherr
Places:
Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1820–1821