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Issachar Ber Ryback painted Pogrom during the Russian Civil War, when waves of pogroms were occurring in Ukraine and other areas in the former Pale of Settlement. In the foreground a slain man…
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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918
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Anna Ticho’s life work was drawing the landscapes of the Judean Mountains and Jerusalem. In the 1950s, she was able more easily to access these landscapes when she bought a house in Motza, a town on…
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Anna Ticho
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Date unknown, mid-20th century
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Ze’ev Raban painted this portrait of his wife, Miriam, in 1914, the same year they got married and he became head of the repoussé department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. His…
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Ze’ev Raban
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1914
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Song without Words, painted in Jaffa ca. 1911–1913. Like many of Jan’s works, this painting is suffused with poetic and atmospheric symbolism. Here, a beautiful young woman with haunted eyes holds a…
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1914
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This is a modern artist’s illustration of a painting of a seated male in profile, perhaps an enthroned dignitary. The painting was made on a potsherd from Ramat Rahel. It measures around 5 × 3 inches…
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Ramat Rahel, Land of Israel (Ramat Rahel, Israel)
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Iron Age II, Late 8th–Early 7th Century BCE
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Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa (1669–1749), the second wife of Don Francisco Lopes Suasso, was descended from a wealthy Portuguese New Christian family who fled the Iberian Peninsula and settled…
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Artist Unknown
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (The Hague, Netherlands)
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1730s–1740s
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Tzvi Hirsch ben Jacob Ashkenazi (ca. 1660–1718) was a talmudist and community leader from Moravia. Also known as the Ḥakham Tzvi, a Sephardic scholarly title he is thought to have received from the…
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Artist Unknown
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1714
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Among the portrait miniatures of family members that Catherine da Costa painted is this locket portrait of her son, Abraham da Costa (b. 1704), when he was ten years old.
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Catherine da Costa
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1714
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This portrait depicts the first chief rabbi of Great Britain, Aaron Uri Feivel Hart (1670–1756). Hart was born in Breslau and followed his merchant brother to England. His only published work, the…
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Dannor
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1723
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Menachem Vivante (b. 1650) was a rabbi in Corfu in the eighteenth century and a member of a prominent merchant family. In this oil portrait, painted when he was eighty-five years old, he is depicted…
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Artist Unknown
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Kérkyra (Corfu), Ottoman Empire (Corfu, Greece)
Date:
1735