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- Moses leading the children of Israel out of Egypt, wall painting
from Dura Europos, Syria, mid-third century CE. (ART Collection
/Alamy) - Floor mosaic, from the synagogue at Hamat Tiberias in Galilee,
fourth century CE. (BibleLandPictures.com/Alamy) - Floor mosaic depicting David, from a synagogue in Gaza, sixth
century CE. (BibleLandPictures.com/Alamy) - Bronze magic bowl from Babylonia, fifth–sixth century CE. (Zev
Radovan/Bridgeman Images) - Halakhic mosaic floor inscription from Rehov synagogue, sixth
century CE. (Amirki/Wikimedia Commons) - Marble table in the synagogue at Sardis, fourth century CE.
(BibleLandPictures.com/Alamy) - Lid of the sarcophagus of Faustina, a Jewish woman buried in
Rome, probably in the late third century CE. (Ryan Baumann) - Maimonides’ autograph draft of a section of his Mishneh Torah,
found in the Cairo Genizah, c. 1180. (© Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford) - Part of a marriage contract in Hebrew, Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic,
between a Karaite woman and a Rabbanite man, written in 1082 CE,
probably in Cairo. Cambridge University Library, Taylor-Schechter
Collection, T-S 24.1 fol 1r. (Reproduced by kind permission of The
Syndics of Cambridge University Library) - The synagogue of El Transito in Toledo, fourteenth century.
(Frédéric Reglain/Getty Images) - Stucco work in the interior of the El Transito synagogue, Toledo.
(age fotostock/Alamy) - The Altneuschul in Prague, 1270. (Oyvind Holmstad/Wikimedia
Commons) - The New Synagogue in Oranienburger Strasse, Berlin, painting by
Emile Pierre Joseph de Cauwer, c. 1866. (Art Collection4/Alamy) - The Portugese Esnoga in Amsterdam, undated painting. (Zev
Radovan/Bridgeman Images) - Bevis Marks synagogue, London, 1701. (Grant Smith/Alamy)
- Image of the Pesach Seder from the Sarajevo Haggadah, mid-
fourteenth century. (Zev Radovan/Bridgeman Images)