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Saul Tchernichovski (1875–1943) is considered one of the great modern Hebrew poets. His poems are part of the canon of Israeli literature, and his portrait appears on Israeli currency. Pasternak…
Contributor:
Leonid Pasternak
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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Shortly before World War I, Meidner was active in a circle of Berlin artists called Die Pathetiker (The Sorrowful Ones), who were early practitioners of what later came to be known as expressionism…
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Ludwig Meidner
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1919
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Albatros, a journal of literature and graphic art, debuted in Warsaw in 1922 and published its final two issues in Berlin. The journal was edited by the Hebrew-Yiddish poet Uri Zvi Greenberg and…
Contributor:
Henryk Berlewi
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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At first Eternal Wanderers seems like an abstract assemblage of colorful shapes. A closer look, however, reveals a group of people, young and old, with mask-like faces, teetering on tilting ground…
Contributor:
Lasar Segall
Places:
Dresden, Weimar Republic (Dresden, Germany)
Date:
1919
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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