Klausen Synagogue (Prague)

Wooden sofa with upholstered seat, featuring an image of clasped hands and Hebrew inscription on seat back.

Wedding Sofa

This Biedermeier-style sofa from Danzig, with birch veneer over pine, may have been commissioned on the occasion of a marriage. The oval on the seat back contains an image of clasped hands, and the…

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Sing More Softly

Let no one cross my threshold, Nor disturb my silence; I no longer wish to hear The noise of people and speech From them I crawled away In tears, into my corner, To listen at last in quiet To the…

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Poster featuring soldier raising gun in the air wearing a helmet with Star of David, with his left arm around a rabbi holding Torah, two sad women in the foreground holding a child, another man to the left in handcuffs, and English writing on the bottom.

We Will Never Die! Constitution Hall, Washington D.C., poster

In 1942, Arthur Szyk produced this poster, called Tears of Rage, for a series of pageants mounted by Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht and militant Zionist leader Peter Bergson to protest inaction…

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Klausen Synagogue (Prague)

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