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B’nai Israel (Millburn, New Jersey)
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Percival Goodman won the commission to design the building for Congregation B’nai Israel after speaking at a two-day symposium organized in 1947 by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations to…

Contributor:

Percival Goodman

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Date:

1951

Subjects:

Synagogue, Cities, Piety, Conservative Judaism, Modernism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Exterior wall of synagogue featuring Star of David on the right side of the wall and a ribbon-like sculpture in the middle of the wall on a prominent vertical section that juts out from the rest of the wall, with inscription in English reading "And the bush was not consumed."
A Fragment of the Altar of a Synagogue in Mariampol
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The Torah ark in the synagogue of Mariampol was surmounted by tablets of the law flanked by rampant lions and topped with a crown, with hands making the priestly blessing. After World War II, Soviet…

Contributor:

Valerii Rybarskii

Places:

Marijampole, Russian Empire (Marijampole, Lithuania)

Date:

1902

Subjects:

Synagogue, Jewish identity, Piety, Ritual object, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Sculpture
Photograph of wooden structure with two small columns of Hebrew writing with crown on top, and two sculped lions on either side.