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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 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
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Pest-Buda, Austrian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1820–1821
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The only image of the interior of the first synagogue of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, a congregation established in Charleston in 1749, is this picture, painted from memory by Solomon Nunes Carvalho. The…
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho
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Charleston, United States of America
Date:
1838
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David Tevele Schiff (d. 1791) was the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1765 until his death. At the time of his appointment, the rabbi of the Great Synagogue was also considered to be the…
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Martha Isaacs
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London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1765
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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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Artist Unknown
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1553 and 1557
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In 1860, the Austrian Jewish community commissioned a medal of appreciation for Franz Joseph to commemorate the emperor’s granting to Jews the right to own property within the Austrian Empire. On the…
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Wenzel Seidan
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Paris, France
Date:
1860