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Les Las (The Weary)
Jules Adler’s many paintings depicting the everyday lives of the working-class in Paris and labor strikes earned him the nickname “the painter of the humble.” Les Las (The Weary) was inspired by a…
Silent Prayer, Synagogue of Amsterdam, “The Amidah”
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Sermon dans un oratoire israélite (Sermon in an Israelite House of Prayer)
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