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This etching of a Jewish woman from Thrace (a region located in present day Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey) is from Livre curieux contenant la naive représentation des habits des femmes des diverses…
Contributor:
Wenceslaus Hollar
Places:
Arundel, Kingdom of Great Britain (Arundel, United Kingdom)
Date:
1644
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Menorahs with seven arms are traditionally displayed in synagogues as a reminder of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. This brass menorah by Gyula Pap also has seven arms but is strikingly different in…
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Gyula Pap
Places:
Weimar, Weimar Republic (Weimar, Germany)
Date:
1922
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Segalove mines her own life for personal narratives as a source for her feminist, conceptual, video, and performance art. Jewish Boys, a photograph of text, tells an anecdote about her first day in a…
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Ilene Segalove
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1987
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Wexler is an artist and architect who also makes furniture. Over the years, he has often reinvented the sukkah, the booth in which Jews eat meals during Sukkot, an autumn holiday commemorating the…
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Allan Wexler
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1991
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The matzah used to make Goldberg’s reimagined seder plate was purchased from a Hasidic bakery in Brooklyn. Inspired by the prominent role played by the asking of questions in the Haggadah, he met with…
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Neil Goldberg
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1996
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Nimrod provoked controversy when it was first presented to the public. The biblical Nimrod was a hunter, but he was also associated with rebellion, especially in talmudic literature, and he appears…
Contributor:
Itzhak Danziger
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1939
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The National and University Library building, designed by Ziva Armoni and Hanan Hebron, is a cube supported by free-standing columns, with glass walls on the ground floor. It is a prime example of the…
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Ziva Armoni, Hanan Hebron
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1960
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Cover page of G. Bocz’s Yiddish-language biology textbook, Geviksn: Baarbet Avrom Golomb (Plants: Reworked by Avrom Golomb).
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Avrom Golomb
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1919
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By the early twentieth century, many Jewish women in Algeria dressed in European clothing for daily activities. Yet many also continued to dress in their traditional garb for ceremonial and…
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French Protectorate of Algeria (Algeria, Algeria)
Date:
Early 20th Century
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Paintings with biblical themes were among the genres for which Solomon J. Solomon was best known and which made him popular with both the public and critics in Victorian England and France. Here, he…
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Solomon J. Solomon
Places:
London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1887