Stairways in the abandoned Agudas Achim Synagogue in Chicago. The building has since been turned into condos, preserving the facade and lobby but erasing the gorgeous sanctuary. Gallery/info at https://t.co/uYMbqMySie

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Beckmann was a keen musician & instruments appear on his canvases as symbols of rhythm & the new Jazz age. The Synagogue at Frankfurt am Main (1919), Family Picture (1920), Carnival (1920) & the Dream (1921)

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Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944)
pittore surrealista tedesco di origine ebraica
morto nel campo di sterminio di Auschwitz nel 1944

Camp Synagogue, San Cyprien
1941
Yad Vashem Art Collection
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One of his most tragic works is Fear. He clutches his niece, the future, with terror. Yet even in the darkness stars & a lantern offer hope. Self-Portrait with Key (1941), Fear (Self-Portrait with his Niece, Marianne) 1941, Camp Synagogue (1941), Self Portrait with Felka (1942)

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The Synagogue from Zolkiew burning...Juni 1941 😢💔

Never Forget the barbarism the Nazis !

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Today's lunchtime study: a chandelier from Amsterdam's Portuguese Synagogue

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It was very interesting to visit this former synagogue in 2017.

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In Memory : "Warsaw, Poland, A woman lighting Sabbath candles in a refugee shelter. A former synagogue at 27 Gesia Street, serving as a shelter for deportees from Aleksandrow, Lodz, Kalisz and Poznan and homeless from Warsaw."

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In memory : Wrocław, then Breslau, ca. 1910

The Great Synagogue from 1865-72 !

It was, next to the New Synagogue in Berlin, the largest synagogue of Germany and Austria. During Kristallnacht on November 9-10, 1938, Nazi militants burned down the synagogue.

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Prayers at the Warshaver Synagogue in New York City's Lower East Side, D-Day, June 6, 1944. Photo by Larry Gordon.

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Ben Jennings on Donald and the San Diego synagogue shooting - political cartoon gallery in London https://t.co/dePcTdnXF6

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My condolences to the families of Poway Synagogue shooting victims. Hate crimes must be fought, no matter if against Jews, Muslims or Christians.

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The three hares (rabbits), a triskelion motif appearing in sacred sites from the Middle & Far East to synagogues in Europe, & churches in Devon, England, has Pagan associations with fertility, & is a Christian symbol of the Trinity. 🐇#myth

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Synagogue at Officers School Training Base I
1968–69, Mitzpeh Ramon, Israel

Alfred Neumann, Zvi Hecker, architects

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Today's comic was inspired by friend whose young daughter was frightened to decorate for Hanukkah after the horrible Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. So I'm decorating (and posting this cartoon) in solidarity.
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Bonus Panel: https://t.co/kB9Ey4HQEm

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Today marks the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass.”
Photo: Burning synagogue on Kristallnacht. Hildesheim, Germany. November 9, 1938.

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On the heels of the murder of eleven congregants at Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, today is the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 NAZI pogrom against German Jews. C&G Partners developed “1938 Projekt: Posts from the Past”: https://t.co/aPDuxK2hda

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Sending out 2 the world Marc Chagall, Around Her, 1945. Evil cannot destroy love, family & faith, my heart goes out 2 those suffering fr this tragedy.

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After her comments this weekend regarding the proves she's as much of a failure as a human being as she ever was. This caricature is an older piece; I failed to capture just how truly awful & amoral she is. But the boot fits.

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