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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)
Date:
1705
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The Pinkas Synagogue is the second-oldest extant synagogue in Prague. It is believed that a synagogue was found in that location as early as 1492. The structure now housing the synagogue was founded…
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Judah Goldschmied
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1535
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Isaack Luttichuys
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Date Unknown|Second Half of the 17th Century
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Late 17th Century
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Jews first settled in Kaifeng, the capital of Henan province in central China, before 1127. According to scholars, they had come from India or Persia, spoke Persian, and worked as cotton dyers and…
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Jean Domenge
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Kaifeng, Qing Dynasty (Kaifeng, China)
Date:
1722
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The Great Synagogue of Lutsk (Łuck) in Ukraine was built in 1626. Renaissance in style, the synagogue is an example of a fortress synagogue, built not only as a house of worship but also with the…
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Artist Unknown, Photographer Unknown
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Łuck, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lutsk, Ukraine)
Date:
1626–1628
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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)
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Early 18th Century
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The ceiling and wall paintings in the baroque-style Kupa Synagogue in Kraków, which dates from 1643, were damaged during World War II and in a pogrom that occurred in August 1945 immediately following…
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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17th Century
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Catherine da Costa
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London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1721