Still Life with a Picture of Napoleon
1912–1913
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Jewish Visual and Material Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
1880–1918
Increasingly culturally integrated, Jewish fine artists, designers, and photographers produced dazzling works of art and considered cultivating a distinctive national art.
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