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Weegee, known for his boundless energy and the wildly diverse subject matter to which he was attracted as a photographer, shot this photograph on a hot Saturday in July 1940 for the left-wing tabloid…
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Weegee
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New York, United States of America
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1940
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In this photograph of Israeli beatniks in a night club, Paul Schutzer captured a different side of Israeli life from that usually portrayed in the Israeli and international media. His partying…
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Paul Schutzer
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1960
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Menu for a banquet given in honor of District Grand Lodge No. 7, International Order of B’nai B’rith at the West End Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 11, 1886.
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International Order of B’nai B’rith
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New Orleans, United States of America
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1886
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The heading of this advertisement for an “excursion” offered by the Yiddish daily newspaper Forverts reads: “From where are you a landsman?” (i.e., What town did you come from in the old county?). It…
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The Forward
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1898
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Gross was known for his wooden sculptures and his focus on the human figure. He first studied art on the Lower East Side of Manhattan when he came to the United States and he later taught there at the…
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Chaim Gross
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1928
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There are times Nina wants to strike Andras like a flint and make him burn. And there are times when she is patient and steels herself with more strength than he knows. But mostly Nina is lonely. She…
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Allegra Goodman
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Cambridge, United States of America
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1998
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In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture
and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots
I have never seen a post-war Philco
with the automatic eye
nor heard Ravel’s “Bolero”…
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Gerald Stern
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
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For her book Florida Family Portrait, Gelles photographed her family in the same pose over twenty years during trips to visit her parents in Florida. A comment on family, growth, aging, death, and the…
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Judy Gelles
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Melbourne Beach, United States of America
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1996
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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
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1987