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Tzedek ve-Shalom Synagogue, Suriname
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Built in 1736, the Tzedek ve-Shalom synagogue served a Sephardic congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had migrated from Holland to Suriname. Located in Suriname’s capital of Paramaribo, the…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Paramaribo, Dutch Colonial Empire (Paramaribo, Suriname)

Date:

1736

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Colonialism, Art, Aesthetics, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture, Decorative arts
Photograph of rectangular room with arched windows, floor covered in sand, wooden cabinet on far wall, wooden benches on left side and along walls, and wooden lectern on right side.
Urbino Synagogue, Italy
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This Torah ark, installed in a synagogue in the Italian town of Urbino, is a fine example of Renaissance Judaica. Carved from walnut in the early sixteenth century, the ark belonged to the Sephardic…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Urbino, Duchy of Urbino (Urbino, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1500

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Ritual objects, Art, Aesthetics, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture, Decorative arts
Photograph of ornamental Torah ark chamber with gilded columns and doors with filigree and Hebrew writing.
Doors to the Bimah, Rema Synagogue (Krakow)
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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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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

Early 18th Century

Subjects:

Synagogue, Ritual objects, Ritual & observance, Art, Aesthetics, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture, Decorative arts
Set of curved doors with carving of peacock-shaped pitcher filled with foliage and fruit extending to top of door.
Synagogue (Bechhofen, Germany)
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The Bechhofen Synagogue (built in 1685) is believed to have been the largest wooden synagogue in Germany. The interior of the synagogue was painted with lavish decorations in 1732 and 1733, in typical…

Contributor:

Eliezer Zusman of Brody

Places:

Bechhofen, Holy Roman Empire (Bechhofen, Germany)

Date:

1684

Subjects:

Synagogue, Painting, Artists, Aesthetics, Art, Architecture

Categories:

Painting, Architecture
Interior of building of back wall with decorative images on top, Hebrew text in the middle, and lattice below, platform with railing in left foreground, and several podiums along wall.