Die Erschaffung des Menschen (The Creation of Man)
Die Erschaffung des Menschen (The Creation of Man) is an illustration by Ephraim Moses Lilien for the 1902 German translation of the Yiddish poems of Morris Rosenfeld, Lieder des Ghetto (Songs of the Ghetto). This image illustrates a thirteen-stanza poem describing God’s creation of man. Lilien has given the angel on the left the face of Theodor Herzl, who is revered as the father of modern political Zionism.
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Courtesy of the Libraries of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.
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