Coney Island

Sid Grossman

1947

Photograph of five people sitting closely together, with one lying down, in a circle on the beach.
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Visual and Material Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century

1939–1973

Jewish visual art flourished and diversified in the postwar period, reflecting the social and political transformations taking place in the world.

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