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Cover of L’Ornement Hebreu (The Hebrew Ornament). This major work on Jewish art reproduced ornaments from medieval Hebrew illuminated manuscripts in the imperial library in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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David Gintsburg, Vladimir Stasov
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1905
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Cover of Arabish-yidisher lehrer: Veg vayzer far di yidishe legyoneren in Tsiyen (Arabic-Yiddish Teacher: A guide for Jewish legionnaires in Zion). This self-guided primer on Palestinian Arabic for…
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Getsl Zelikovitch
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918
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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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We live in a time of Sturm und Drang [storm and stress]. Every day brings new disappointments and new hopes. Old forms lose their value, no new ones are being created. And the synthetic gaze of…
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David Bergelson
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919
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Leopold Pilichowski began painting pictures with Jewish themes shortly after moving to the Polish industrial city of Łódź, around 1894. He depicted the everyday life of impoverished Jews and Jewish…
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Leopold Pilichowski
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Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1894–1895
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This painting of a service at the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam is similar to a painting for which Jacques-Émile-Edouard Brandon received a medal at the Paris Salon of 1867. Both are views of the…
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Jacques-Émile-Édouard Brandon
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1897
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A Difficult Passage in the Talmud is one of the many scenes of Jewish life in Hungary, Moravia, Slovakia, Galicia, Ukraine, and Russian Poland that Isidor Kaufmann was best known for. His idyllic…
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Isidor Kaufmann
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1903
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One Who Is Rebellious:To obey commandments of which merely the ear is aware,
Yet remain deaf to urges that shake the whole being;
To regard as good the former,
Which reveal the soul so as to abandon…
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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I and the Village combines Marc Chagall’s memories of his childhood in Vitebsk with folklorist and abstract imagery to create what scholar H. W. Janson called a “cubist fairy tale.” The dreamlike…
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Marc Chagall
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1911
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In this photograph shot on a snowy day in New York City, icy bare branches on the staircase of a building dwarf the people and two skyscrapers, creating a composition in which diagonal lines and…
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Alfred Stieglitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911