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The Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) was founded in Philadelphia in 1888. (It had a number of precursors that did not last.) Today, JPS is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher…
Contributor:
Moses Ezekiel
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913
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Rubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They drew on the ideas…
Contributor:
Reuven Rubin
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1923
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This illustration is from Franciscan monk Eugène Roger’s La terre saincte (The Holy Land), a comprehensive study of the Land of Israel which includes dozens of etchings depicting Jewish, Muslim, Druze…
Contributor:
Eugène Roger
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1646
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Early in his career, Castel often painted pictures of Jews, like these, whose roots were in Arab lands. Many at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied, believed that Yemenite Jews…
Contributor:
Moshe Castel
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1926
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Zaritsky was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, drew on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to create a modern art of Jewish…
Contributor:
Yosef Zaritsky
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1924
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This photograph of a bare-chested young man flexing his muscles in front of an army tent is one of the best-known images in Nes’s “Soldiers” series, an exploration of Israeli identity and masculinity…
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Adi Nes
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1996