John the Baptist
The young Jewish intellectuals of Barcinski’s generation were interested in pushing boundaries, including by employing Christian imagery, as Barcinski did in this portrait of John the Baptist. The American Yiddish poet Moyshe Leyb Halperin (1886–1932), for example, frequently referred to Jesus in his poems, and in the nineteenth century and at the turn of the twentieth, various Jewish artists, such as Mark Antokolsky, Maurycy Gottlieb, Max Liebermann, Samuel Hirszenberg, Moses Ezekiel, and Ephraim Moses Lilien, depicted Jesus in a range of approaches and representations.
Credits
Courtesy of Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 8.
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