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The pen-on-paper Tu tournes lentement, an example of surrealist automatic painting, depicts women and fragmented humanoid shapes in dance-like movement. It was drawn by Paul Păun during World War II…
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Paul Paun
Date:
1943
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In the seventeenth century, members of the Suasso (Suaço, Suasco) family, bankers originally from Spain, lived in Holland and England. Antonio (Isaac) Lopez Suasso resided in The Hague during the…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1676
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Jacob Ries (1660–1751) of Prague first worked as a badchan (jester) for weddings. In 1710, he became court jester in Vienna under Charles VI. The artist of this portrait of Ries is not known. It…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1710
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This depiction of a Jewish merchant is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have also done his own illustrations. Considered at the time a key source of…
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Nicolas de Nicolay
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1585
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This engraving depicting “Jewish robbers” is from the book Des bekannten Diebes, Mörders und Räubers Lips Tullians, und seiner Complicen Leben und Ubelthaten (The Known Thief, Murderer, and Robber…
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Unknown
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Dresden, Holy Roman Empire (Dresden, Germany)
Date:
1716
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The Jewish couple in Frankfurt am Main depicted here are wearing distinctive clothing that would have clearly identified them as Jews: the man’s collar, hat, and cloak, and the woman’s ruff and winged…
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Caspar Luyken
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1703
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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…
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Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1572
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This woodcut is an illustration in Sefer minhagim (Book of Customs), a very popular Yiddish book published by Giovanni di Gara, the leading publisher of Jewish books in Venice from 1564 to 1609. It…
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Artist Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1600/1
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Faces decorating a siddur.
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
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ca. 1500
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In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the lifting of restrictions on Jewish publishing, Jewish theater companies revolutionized theater and scene design and experimented with modernist approaches…
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Aleksandr Tyshler
Date:
1928