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The wooden synagogue in Chodorów, near Lvov, Poland (now Khodoriv, near Lviv, Ukraine), built in 1652, was destroyed by the Nazis. The austere outside—shown here in an early twentieth-century, black…
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Israel ben Mordechai Lisnicki
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Chodorów, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Khodoriv, Ukraine)
Date:
1652 and 1714
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The interior of the wooden Horb synagogue (completed in 1735) is richly decorated in typical East European style, which artist Eliezer Zusman, originally from Brody, introduced to southern Germany…
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Eliezer Zusman of Brody
Places:
Horb am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Marktzeuln, Germany)
Date:
1735
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The wooden synagogue in Gwoździec, eastern Galicia (modern-day Poland), was one of more than two hundred wooden synagogues that existed in Poland before World War II. Wooden synagogues were a…
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Isaac Ber and His Son, Isaac ben Judah Leib ha-Kohen, Israel ben Mordechai Lisnicki
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Gwoździec, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Gwoździec, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1650
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This synagogue structure contains stunning samples of wood painting and folk motifs (including verses, images of Jerusalem, animals, and flowers). The panels were decorated by Eliezer Zusman, an…
Contributor:
Eliezer Zusman of Brody
Places:
Unterlimpurg, Habsburg Empire (Unterlimpurg, Germany)
Date:
1738/9