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Issachar Ber Ryback’s drawings of the painted ceiling of what was known as the Cold Synagogue in Mogilev (today in Belarus) are among the few visual records of the work of the painter Chaim ben…
Contributor:
Issachar Ber Ryback
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1916
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Grininke beymelekh (Little Green Trees), no. 1 (Vilna: B. A. Kletzkin, 1914.) The title of this Yiddish children’s journal, the first of the genre to appear regularly, was drawn from the Yiddish poem…
Contributor:
Zelig Melamed
Date:
1914
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Illustrated folk depiction of the story of Purim by Moshe Mizrachi (Jerusalem: Monsohn, 1902). The top panels depict the villain of the story, Haman, leading the hero Mordechai on a horse and the…
Contributor:
Moshe Mizrachi
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1902
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Józef Awin’s reconstruction of the synagogue in the Old Cemetery of Lwów/L’viv, featured here, reflects his clean geometricity and appreciation for Galician wooden synagogue architecture. The cemetery…
Contributor:
Józef Awin
Places:
Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1909