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Rendering of Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland
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Hecker’s design for the Museum of the History of the Polish Jews (Polin) proposed a complex of two buildings: one a rectangular concrete block and the other a lighter metal and glass structure. The…

Contributor:

Zvi Hecker

Places:

Warsaw, Poland

Date:

2005

Subjects:

Cities, Memorial, Jewish quarters, Ecology, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
3-D rendering of lit-up buildings.
Map of the City of Venice, ca. 1729
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This eighteenth-century map of Venice includes the ghetto within which the city’s Jews were required to live from 1516 until Napoleon’s conquest of the Republic of Venice in 1797. The Venice ghetto…

Contributor:

Lodovico Furlanetto

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1729

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Christian-Jewish relations, Print, Architecture

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art, Architecture
Small image of topographical cityscape.
Pinkas Synagogue (Prague)
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The Pinkas Synagogue is the second-oldest extant synagogue in Prague. It is believed that a synagogue was found in that location as early as 1492. The structure now housing the synagogue was founded…

Contributor:

Judah Goldschmied

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

1535

Subjects:

Synagogue, Ritual & observance, Cities, Ashkenazi, Jewish quarters, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
Front view of building exterior with curved tile roof and arched windows and metal fence around perimeter.
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…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1638–1645

Subjects:

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

Categories:

Architecture
Photograph of exterior of stone building with double staircase.
Alms Box
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This alms box was affixed to the wall in the Old Synagogue (Alte-Schul, or Stara Bóżnica) of Kraków, located in the Kazimierz district of the city. Because it was in a part of the Polish-Lithuanian…

Contributor:

Matteo Gucci

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1569–70

Subjects:

Synagogue, Cities, Charity, Jewish quarters, Community, Architecture, Ritual objects

Categories:

Architecture, Ritual Objects
Carved wall unit with decorative borders and crowns, locked metal box in middle, and Hebrew text underneath.