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The Scuola Levantina (Levantine Synagogue), a Sephardic synagogue built in 1541, was restored in the late seventeenth century. The bimah is thought to have been carved by Andrea Brustolon (1662–1732)…
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1541
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The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…
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Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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1581
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In 1670, Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community commissioned a new synagogue, which, when finished, was the largest in the world. The master mason Elias Bouman (ca. 1636–1686), a non-Jew, who had…
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1671–1675
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In 1934, the German-Jewish entrepreneur and philanthropist Salman Schocken (1877–1959) commissioned Mendelsohn to design a villa for him and his family in Jerusalem, where they had fled from Nazi…
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Eric Mendelsohn
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1936
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The rape of Europa is a story from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus seduces the princess Europa and, taking the form of a bull, carries her on his back to the Mediterranean island of Crete. The…
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Jacques Lipchitz
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1938
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Rubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They drew on the ideas…
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Reuven Rubin
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1923
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Soutine was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Eastern and Central European Jews. He has been described as a “liminal” figure. He…
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Chaim Soutine
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1925–1935
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Much of Adler’s work has a Jewish subject. In his native Poland, it was customary for small bands of players to go from house to house performing skits on the holiday of Purim. The group of figures in…
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Jankel Adler
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1931
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After the war the world seemed vast, unknowable and boundless. However, my mother went back to living in the world as best she could, happily, for she had a happy nature. Her spirit could never grow…
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Natalia Ginzburg
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Turin, Italy
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1963
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In the 1960s, Howard Kanovitz began using photographs to develop his own distinct style of photorealism. He made drawings of the figures in photographs and abstracted them into fields of color…
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Howard Kanovitz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1966