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For German Jews, it was traditional in the wedding ceremony for the groom to perform the ritual of breaking a glass in remembrance of the destruction of the Temple by hurling it or banging it against…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Bingen, Holy Roman Empire (Bingen, Germany)
Date:
1700
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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