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Yeshivat Dijet Synagogue (Djerba, Tunisia)
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The Yeshivat Dijet Synagogue was located in the Hara Seghira (the “small ghetto”) neighborhood of Djerba, Tunisia. It was one of several synagogues in this area, which, along with Hara Kebira, were…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Djerba, Ottoman Empire (Djerba, Tunisia)

Date:

End of the 17th Century

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Scholarship, Art, Aesthetics, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture, Decorative arts
Exterior photograph of stone building with arched windows, wraparound patio with stone columns, and dirt ground.
I’ll make a little chamber
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Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the roof; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick .…

Contributor:

Abraham Bukrat

Places:

Hafsid Ifriqiya (Tunisia)

Date:

Early 16th Century

Subjects:

Piety, Scholarship, Theology, Bible, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry, Popular Poetry