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The Jewish couple in Frankfurt am Main depicted here are wearing distinctive clothing that would have clearly identified them as Jews: the man’s collar, hat, and cloak, and the woman’s ruff and winged…
Contributor:
Caspar Luyken
Places:
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1703
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Shahn frequently based his paintings on his own photographs. East Side Soap Box is based on a photo of Jewish workers protesting in Madison Square Park in Manhattan. The Yiddish sign reads: “Nature…
Contributor:
Ben Shahn
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1936
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Friendship
It isn’t as easy as they say
Making friends right away,
I went down to the playground today,
To sit alone while others play.
The girls were having lots of fun,
Playing hopscotch and…
Contributor:
Tirtsa Atar
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1976
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This text was produced under Ágai’s pseudonym, Mokany Berczi.
Contributor:
Adolf Ágai
Places:
Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1892
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These depictions of Jewish women from Adrianople (present day Edirne, Turkey) is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have done his own illustrations. Considered…
Contributor:
Nicolas de Nicolay
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1585
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“Cookalein” is a story from Will Eisner’s graphic novel, A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories. The “cookalein” (or kuchalein, “cook for yourself”) was a popular and affordable type of…
Contributor:
Will Eisner
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1978
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As a prisoner in the Nisko labor camp in Poland in 1939 and 1940, Leo Haas painted portraits of SS men in exchange for extra food rations and art supplies. He also documented the daily lives of…
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Leo Haas
Places:
Nisko, Poland
Date:
1939
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Jacob (Jakob) Frank (ca. 1726–1791) was a controversial and charismatic messianic figure who attracted a significant Jewish following in Eastern Europe. After his death, his daughter Eva Frank (1754…
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Offenbach, German Confederation (Offenbach, Germany)
Date:
1813
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In 1705, the Nuremberg artist, Johannes Alexander Böner, published a slim volume about Fürth, Germany, containing several copper-engravings dealing with the life of Jews in the city. This print…
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Johannes Alexander Böner
Places:
Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)
Date:
1705
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New York exemplifies the precisionist, futurist style favored by Lozowick in the 1920s. Like works by other precisionist artists, this lithograph reduces the elements of a cityscape into simple…
Contributor:
Louis Lozowick
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1925–1926