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In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I issued a statute that effectively made Russian Jews liable to military service, as part of a policy that sought to transform the Jewish population into integrated subjects who…
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Artist Unknown
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Shkudy, Russian Empire (Skuodas, Lithuania)
Date:
1864–1867
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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
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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…
Contributor:
Shmuel Niger
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1913
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Cover image and page 4 of Moyshe Broderzon’s Temerl, illustrated by Joseph Chaikov.
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Joseph (Iosif) Chaikov, Moyshe Broderzon
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
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David Yakerson’s Adam and Eve dates from a time before his turn to the much more abstract style of suprematism. In this illustration, Adam and Eve blend in with other decorative elements in a…
Contributor:
David Yakerson
Places:
Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1918
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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…
Contributor:
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…
Contributor:
Abel Pann
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1903
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Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer’s cover design for Istoria evreiskago naroda (History of the Jewish People) features a title with dramatically stylized letters and a gold and black pattern that evokes…
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Rachel Bernstein-Wischnitzer
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1914
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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…
Contributor:
Marc Chagall
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917