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The three art nouveau-influenced covers by Ber Kratko for three of Y. L. Peretz’s plays feature somewhat grotesque figures. The one for Vos in fidele shtekt (What Sticks in the Fiddle) features a…
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Ber Kratko
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1910
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The strongest testimony to life is productivity, and the most direct form of productivity is art. That is why those of us who announce a life of the Jewish people inquire into the possibility of…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1901
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Jacob Epstein
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1904
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This ketubah (marriage contract), was signed in Bayonne, France, whose Jewish community originated with New Christians from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth century. It marks the wedding of Isaac…
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Artist Unknown
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Bayonne, Kingdom of France (Bayonne, France)
Date:
1705
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Shabbetai Sheftel Auerbach
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1706
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Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1719
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Servius de Levis
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Verona, Republic of Venice (Verona, Italy)
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16th Century
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Chaim Soutine
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1925–1935
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All discussions pertaining to the Jews must begin with some very gloomy observations. The Jews are, everywhere, a minority group, and it is a particular misfortune these days to be a minority group in…
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Isaac Rosenfeld
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1944
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June 1, 1918
Jewish music is the face of a frozen sphinx which, after the millennium of its antiquity, is still only on the path to discovering its secret, is only now waking to life…
Contributor:
Aleksander Krein
Places:
Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1918