Please see below for the text of the publication divided into chapters by Synagogue.
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The frontispiece of The Synagogues of Dorchester is a picture of The Talmudist by Jacob Binder, a gift to the Museum of Fine Arts in 1929. It was painted in response to John Singer Sargent's mural Synagogue unveiled in 1919.
The sitter/model for the painting was a Jewish carpenter named Jacob Freeman.
Source: Jewish Advocate, January 10, 1944, page 10.
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