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Janów, Poland, was home to a unique wooden synagogue. The town was settled by Jews toward the end of the seventeenth century, and, by 1739, the Jewish population formed the majority of the town’s…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Yanuv, Russian Empire (Janów, Poland)
Date:
1700s
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Der pinkes (The Book of Records, or The Annals) appropriated the term for the old-fashioned record book of a Jewish community or institution to name a very new phenomenon: the first “annual for the…
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Shmuel Niger
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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The Torah ark in the synagogue of Mariampol was surmounted by tablets of the law flanked by rampant lions and topped with a crown, with hands making the priestly blessing. After World War II, Soviet…
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Valerii Rybarskii
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Marijampole, Russian Empire (Marijampole, Lithuania)
Date:
1902
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Yehudah Pen painted this self-portrait shortly after opening the School of Drawing and Painting in Vitebsk, which over the twenty years of its existence attracted hundreds of young men and women…
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Yehudah Pen
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1898
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The Day after the Pogrom was painted shortly after the Kishinev pogrom, in which forty-nine Jews were murdered, more than 500 injured, many Jewish women raped, 700 houses ransacked and destroyed, 600…
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Abel Pann
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1903
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The Traveler was painted soon after the Russian Revolution, around the time that Marc Chagall was appointed commissar of the arts for Vitebsk, the site of Yehudah Pen’s academy, where Chagall had…
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Marc Chagall
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917
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The audience at the first formal performance by the Habima theater troupe in 1918. This set of short plays, Neshef bereshit (A Festival of Our Beginning), was performed in the Moscow Art Theatre under…
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1918
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An illustration by El Lissitzky from Chaim Nahman Bialik’s Shloyme ha-melekh (King Solomon), from an issue of the Hebrew journal Shtilim (Saplings) that was printed in 1917 in Moscow, two days before…
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El Lissitzky
Date:
1917
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Paper cuts have been a tradition of Jewish folk art, with the earliest record of one dating to the fourteenth century. Given the widespread availability of paper in Europe by the mid-nineteenth…
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Nachman ha-Kohen Bialsker
Places:
Bielsk, Russian Empire (Bielsk Podlaski, Poland)
Date:
1862
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The wooden synagogue in Jabłonów was built in the second half of the seventeenth century. Its walls were covered in colorful paintings. It was burned down at the beginning of World War I by Russian…
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Alois Breier
Places:
Jablonow, Russian Empire (Ukraine)
Date:
1910