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Conversation with a Countryman
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An old Jew asked me near the Jaffa Gate: “Is the Saxon Garden still there? The same as ever? Is there a fountain? At the entrance from Czysta Street In the old days confectioners had a shop there…

Contributor:

Antoni Slonimski

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1922

Subjects:

Cities, Memory, Economic life, Parenthood, Family

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
Isaac Synagogue (Kraków)
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The Isaac (or Izaak) Synagogue in Kraków was built in 1638–1644. Sources differ about who designed the building, but it was likely either the Italian architect Francisco Olivieri or Swiss-born…

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Artist Unknown

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1638–1645

Subjects:

Synagogue, Jewish quarters, Economic life, Cities, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Photograph of exterior of stone building with double staircase.