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Tzedek ve-Shalom Synagogue, Suriname
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Built in 1736, the Tzedek ve-Shalom synagogue served a Sephardic congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had migrated from Holland to Suriname. Located in Suriname’s capital of Paramaribo, the…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Paramaribo, Dutch Colonial Empire (Paramaribo, Suriname)

Date:

1736

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Colonialism, Art, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
Photograph of rectangular room with arched windows, floor covered in sand, wooden cabinet on far wall, wooden benches on left side and along walls, and wooden lectern on right side.
Urbino Synagogue, Italy
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This Torah ark, installed in a synagogue in the Italian town of Urbino, is a fine example of Renaissance Judaica. Carved from walnut in the early sixteenth century, the ark belonged to the Sephardic…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Urbino, Duchy of Urbino (Urbino, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1500

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Ritual object, Art, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
Photograph of ornamental Torah ark chamber with gilded columns and doors with filigree and Hebrew writing.