Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa‘ir Poster to Honor the 30th Anniversary of the October Revolution
1947
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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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