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Der pinkes (cover)
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Der pinkes (The Book of Records, or The Annals) appropriated the term for the old-fashioned record book of a Jewish community or institution to name a very new phenomenon: the first “annual for the…

Contributor:

Shmuel Niger

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Scholarship, Jewish identity, Yiddish, Cities, Education

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Science & Philosophy
Page with Yiddish text and simple decorated border.
A Fragment of the Altar of a Synagogue in Mariampol
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The Torah ark in the synagogue of Mariampol was surmounted by tablets of the law flanked by rampant lions and topped with a crown, with hands making the priestly blessing. After World War II, Soviet…

Contributor:

Valerii Rybarskii

Places:

Marijampole, Russian Empire (Marijampole, Lithuania)

Date:

1902

Subjects:

Synagogue, Jewish identity, Piety, Ritual object, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Sculpture
Photograph of wooden structure with two small columns of Hebrew writing with crown on top, and two sculped lions on either side.