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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”
This painting of a service at the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam is similar to a painting for which Jacques-Émile-Edouard Brandon received a medal at the Paris Salon of 1867. Both are views of the…
Sermon dans un oratoire israélite (Sermon in an Israelite House of Prayer)
Édouard Moyse’s paintings of Jewish religious life earned him the nickname “the painter of rabbis.” His paintings often depict an idealized Judaism not situated in a specific place or time. The…
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Yehudah Pen painted this self-portrait shortly after opening the School of Drawing and Painting in Vitebsk. An early example of his self-portraiture, the painting is simple compared to later ones…
The Wandering Jew
In The Wandering Jew, a man driven mad with horror runs through an apocalyptic landscape full of crucifixes and strewn with corpses. A protest against the long history of Christian persecution of Jews…