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“Le people juif . . . sur de lui-même et dominateur . . .” (“The Jews, a People Sure of Itself and Domineering, . . .” Charles de Gaulle)
Louis Mitelberg drew this cartoon in ironic response to a 1967 comment made by French president Charles De Gaulle in the wake of the Six Day War, in which he described the Jewish people (now that they…
The Liberation of Jerusalem
The Liberation of Jerusalem, created shortly after the Six Day War, was a bold statement by its artist Solomon (Shlomo) Dreizner, at a time when any expression of support for Israel by Soviet Jews…
Illustration to Sholem Aleichem, The Haunted Tailor
Sholem Aleichem’s grotesque story “The Haunted Tailor” tells of a poor, witless tailor who is sent on a mission to buy a milk-giving goat, who turns out to be possessed. In the Soviet Union, it was…
The Artist behind Bars (Self-Portrait)
Boris Penson painted this self-portrait soon after he was refused a visa to emigrate to Israel. He depicted himself in prison stripes against a background of a grate against a dreary landscape. After…
Moscow Evening
In the 1960s, Oscar Rabin began to incorporate everyday objects, such as the newspaper seen here, into his paintings. He also added sand into his work, sometimes blending paint and sand together. This…
Daniel Cohn-Bendit Jumping the Police Barricade
Daniel Cohn-Bendit was a student leader during the protest in France in May 1968, when up to ten million workers went on strike and 800,000 people marched through Paris. Here he vaults a police…