Wooden Synagogues Of The Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Wooden synagogues are an original style of Synagogue architecture that developed in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
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“It’s the anarchy of poverty
delights me, the old
yellow wooden house indented
among the new brick tenements”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
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From the Sermon on the Mount.
“Was I not born in this Realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country?... Is not my Kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom have I enriched to other’s harm? What turmoil have I made to this Commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard of the same?”
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