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East Side Soap Box
This painting depicts Jewish workers protesting in Madison Square Park in Manhattan.
Portrait of Aharon Meskin
This portrait of Aharon Meskin (1898–1974) exemplifies Ben-Zvi’s cubist sculpture. Meskin was a leading actor in the Hebrew-language Habima Theater, who began his association with the troupe while it…
White Crucifixion
White Crucifixion was the first of several paintings that Chagall made in which Jesus represented Jewish suffering. His use of Christian imagery was controversial, but he was not the first Jewish…
The Rape of Europa
The rape of Europa is a story from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus seduces the princess Europa and, taking the form of a bull, carries her on his back to the Mediterranean island of Crete. The…
Synagogue, Pitt Street
This photograph of a Lower East Side synagogue was taken by a member of the Photo League, a socially conscious photographers’ collective that documented everyday life.
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Sol Libsohn co-founded The Photo League, a socially conscious photographers’ collective, around the time he took this photograph. It captures a moment in the daily life of the people of a tenement…