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In 1670, Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community commissioned a new synagogue, which, when finished, was the largest in the world. The master mason Elias Bouman, a non-Jew who had helped design the…
Contributor:
Adolf van der Laan
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1710
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New York exemplifies the precisionist, futurist style favored by Lozowick in the 1920s. Like works by other precisionist artists, this lithograph reduces the elements of a cityscape into simple…
Contributor:
Louis Lozowick
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1925–1926
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This image depicts the interior of the synagogue that served the Beth Israel congregation in Amsterdam. Before 1639, there were three Sephardic congregations in Amsterdam: Beth Jacob (founded possibly…
Contributor:
Jan Veenhuyzen
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1647
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Originating from the Iberian Peninsula, the de Pinto family were wealthy merchant bankers who lived in Amsterdam from the seventeenth century on. In Spain, members of the family had converted to…
Contributor:
Abraham Rademaker
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1730/1
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A month after the birth of future Emperor Joseph II (March 13, 1741), the Jews of Prague held a festive procession in honor of the happy event. The procession, which was planned and led by the…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czechoslovakia)
Date:
1741
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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
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Jacob Epstein, “Buying a Newspaper,” from Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York. Epstein was best-known for his sculptures, but he also created the…
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Jacob Epstein
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1902