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Contributor:
Joachim Michael Salecker
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1723
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Elkana Schatz Naumberg
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Kriegshaber, Holy Roman Empire (Kriegshaber, Germany)
Date:
1724
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Artist Unknown
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Ioannina, Ottoman Empire (Ioannina, Greece)
Date:
1728
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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…
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Eliezer Zusman of Brody
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Unterlimpurg, Habsburg Empire (Unterlimpurg, Germany)
Date:
1738/9
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Emanuel de Witte
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1680
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Born in Livorno, Tuscany, in 1656, Hezekiah ben David de Silva was a scholar best known for his halakhic work Peri ḥadash (New Fruit). De Silva studied in Syria and later headed a yeshiva in Jerusalem…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1690
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Artist Unknown
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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ca. 1700
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Three representatives of the Prague Burial Society in the 1730s are pictured in these portraits: Jonas Jeitteles (1735–1806, the community’s official physician), Rabbi Leib Fayvel Dayan (another…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1733
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Sultan Mehmed began his reign in the year 856, according to their count [1452 CE]. The king ordered the building of sailing ships on the top of the…
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Joseph Sambari
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1673