Pogrom

Hugo Scheiber painted this rueful self-portrait during World War I. He wears a military cap but otherwise does not appear to be in uniform. Though in 1915 he became a futurist, this painting is more…

Ḥad Gadya (One Little Goat) is a song customarily sung at the end of the Passover seder. It recounts a sequence of events beginning with a young goat purchased by the protagonist’s father that is then…

In Alexander Tyshler’s illustration for a Yiddish version of the Sleeping Beauty story, characters seated around a table are packed together like puzzle pieces, enclosed in a rectangular shape from…

David Yakerson’s Adam and Eve dates from a time before his turn to the much more abstract style of suprematism. In this illustration, Adam and Eve blend in with other decorative elements in a…

Chaim Soutine’s self-portrait is both an homage to art history and a critique of it. There was a long tradition of artists painting themselves facing an easel, holding a palette and paint brushes. But…

This erotic illustration by Joseph Chaikov was made for a lavish edition of the biblical Song of Songs published by the Yiddish Kultur-lige in Kiev in 1918–1919. The forms of the embracing couple here…