by hadassah | Nov 17, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Social and Religious Life in Diaspora
Bialystoker Synagogue, Manhattan, details of the wall and ceiling paintings.In Eastern Europe, this tradition of painted synagogues, often with signs of the zodiac, was quite common before the Holocaust, and it is maintained in a few remaining synagogue buildings—most...
by hadassah | Nov 17, 2015 | Greco-Roman Period, Social and Religious Life in Diaspora
Bialystoker Synagogue, Manhattan. In Eastern Europe, this tradition of painted synagogues, often with signs of the zodiac, was quite common before the Holocaust, and it is maintained in a few remaining synagogue buildings—most prominently the Bialystoker Synagogue in...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Social and Religious Life in Diaspora
Social and Religious Life in Diaspora (332 BCE-7th century CE) Political, Social, and Economic Developments The survival of the Jews and Judaism as a distinct entity in the Greco-Roman world, and, for that matter in every other time and place, depended on the...
