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This woodcut is an illustration in Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs), a very popular Yiddish book published by Giovanni di Gara, the leading publisher of Jewish books in Venice from 1564 to 1609. It…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1600/1
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Mané-Katz may have painted this picture of a traditional Jewish klezmer band from memory, from his childhood in the Russian Empire. By the late 1940s, his previously dark palette had begun to shift to…
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz
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Paris, Provisional Government of the French Republic (Paris, France)
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1944–1954
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Al Hirschfeld was most famous for his caricatures of actors, musicians, and other figures from the arts and public life. He himself preferred to be known as a “characterist.” After the birth of his…
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Al Hirschfeld
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1958
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Fanny Hensel (1805–1847), the granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and financier Daniel Itzig, and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was born in Hamburg into a wealthy…
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Julius Helfft
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1849
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Cover of the first issue of La vida nuestra (Our Life), a monthly Jewish culture journal published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, between 1917 and 1923. The typography used for the periodical’s title…
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Aron Bilis
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1917
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These hollow, spool-shaped terra-cotta objects from Beth Shemesh would hold one or more pellets (often small pebbles) that when shaken would produce a sound. They have been considered babies’ toys…
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Beth Shemesh, Land of Israel (Tel Bet Shemesh, Israel)
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Iron Age II, Late 8th–6th Century BCE
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Musicians on ritual stand, Ashdod, late 11th or early 10th century BCE. Music and dance played an important role in Israel and the ancient Near East in both daily life and special occasions such as…
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Ashdod, Land of Israel (Tel Ashdod, Israel)
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Iron Age I, Late 11th or Early 10th Century BCE
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Like most of Henry Valensi’s other “Symphony” paintings, Symphonie Vitale does not refer to a specific piece of music, but instead reflects the principles of Musicalism, the art movement founded by…
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Henry Valensi
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Paris, France
Date:
1952
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This manuscript copy of a prayer book, containing prayers and hymns for the Sephardic community of Amsterdam, was written out by David Mendes.
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1792
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Ernst Josephson painted David and Saul early in his career, when he was working with mostly historical and biblical subjects. Here a young, eroticized David plays a lyre for a darkly brooding King…
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Ernst Josephson
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Stockholm, United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway (Stockholm, Sweden)
Date:
1878