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Drawing of a wooden synagogue from Maximilian Syrkin’s 1910 article, “Drevníya derevyannyye sinagogi v pol’she litve” (Wooden Synagogues in Polish Lithuania). Wooden synagogues were a common form of…
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Artist Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1910
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June 1, 1918
Jewish music is the face of a frozen sphinx which, after the millennium of its antiquity, is still only on the path to discovering its secret, is only now waking to life…
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Aleksander Krein
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
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1918
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This Haggadah from Amsterdam was printed by Joseph ben Abraham Athias and is adorned with elaborate copper etchings by artist Abraham Bar Jacob. It was the first Haggadah to include these sorts of…
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Joseph ben Abraham Athias, Abraham Bar Jacob
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1695
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Art is ultimately tantamount to nature if only we understand it somewhat more broadly and look at man as a natural phenomenon. As the saying goes, no matter how you try to drive nature out through the…
Contributor:
Maximilian Syrkin
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1910