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Portrait of a Girl with a Red Belt
Portrait of a Girl with a Red Belt is one of many portrait miniatures that Jeremiah David Alexander Fiorino painted. He was a court painter in Dresden who painted portraits of members of the royal…
The Return of the Jewish Volunteer from the Wars of Liberation
Moritz Oppenheim’s iconic painting of a Jewish soldier’s homecoming reflects pride, tradition, and ambivalence in an age of emancipation.
An Early Reading of Shakespeare
Responding to a growing interest in Shakespeare among the English, Hart’s painting imagines what it might have been like to hear Shakespeare’s works read out loud, shortly after they became available…
Haggadah (Frankfurt)
One of Charlotte von Rothschild’s most outstanding works is the only known nineteenth-century Hebrew manuscript to have been illuminated by a woman.
The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy
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