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Like other paintings by Yehudah Pen, The Watchmaker depicts an encounter between a traditional Jew and modernity. Here, a traditionally dressed watchmaker reads the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper Haynt…
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Yehudah Pen
Date:
1914
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This bucolic, and clearly romantic, scene of a humble home in a shtetl or village is characteristic of Pen’s style and subject matter. Best known as a painter of everyday Jewish life, he was the…
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Yehudah Pen
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1920–1929
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This surprising 1942 Hebrew-language poster from Palestine calls for women to serve in an all-female unit within Britain’s Royal Air Force. This recruitment office was not open on Saturdays!
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1938–1948
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Anatoly Kaplan’s painting Pakhar’ both commemorates the lost Jewish world of his childhood and reflects accepted Soviet iconography. The Yiddish inscription that frames the central image reads,…
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Anatoly Kaplan
Date:
1960
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When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…
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Vitaliano Poselli
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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ca. 1900–1912
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This relief from Sennacherib’s palace shows workers rebuilding Nineveh, harnessed by shoulder straps to ropes by which they haul a large bull colossus toward the palace. Workers from various places…
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Early 7th Century BCE
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Sholem Aleichem’s grotesque story “The Haunted Tailor” tells of a poor, witless tailor who is sent on a mission to buy a milk-giving goat, who turns out to be possessed. In the Soviet Union, it was…
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Hersh (Grigory) Inger
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USSR (Soviet Union)
Date:
1968
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Moses Reinblatt served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, first as a mechanic and then as an aircraftman. In August 1944, he was appointed an official war artist and was posted in…
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Moses Reinblatt
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1945
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Brickmaking by prisoners. Thebes, Egypt, 15th century BCE. This mural, from the tomb of the vizier Rekh-me-re, shows Semitic (“Asiatic”) and Nubian prisoners of war making mud bricks and repairing a…
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New Kingdom (Egypt), 15th Century BCE
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Alfons Himmelreich created Land is Life as a cover for the May 1940 issue of the magazine A Land in Construction, a publication of the Jewish National Fund. He accepted the commission as an act of…
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Alfons Himmelreich
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940