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A Jewish heaven—Paradisus Iudaeorum—is how a 17th-century Vatican diplomat once described Poland, wrote a BBC analyst in 2005. During the Holocaust, it became hell on earth. This week, previews began at the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews which will tell of 1,000 years of Jewish presence in Poland; and the centerpiece artifact is the replicated roof of a 17th-century wooden synagogue that is suspended overhead for museum viewing. April is Holocaust Remembrance Month, when painful memories to Jews and non-Jews alike are center stage. My exploration of world religions through art makes this 17th-century synagogue roof (being viewed by Rabbi Boaz Pash), my NEWS OF WEEK.

In other religious art news from across the USA, and around the world:

• Buddhism in Art: The destruction of an ancient Buddhist site for great wealth. [More News]
• Christianity in Art: Reinterpreting "Sacred Allegory" for the modern world. [More News]
• Hinduism in Art: Hindus marked their holyday in honor of the monkey God. [More News]
• Islam in Art: Americas religious divide over Islam as power for good or bad. [More News]
• Judaism in Art: Sad tales of neighbors at US Holocaust Memorial Museum [More News]

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