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Shortly before World War I, Meidner was active in a circle of Berlin artists called Die Pathetiker (The Sorrowful Ones), who were early practitioners of what later came to be known as expressionism…
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Ludwig Meidner
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1919
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Albatros, a journal of literature and graphic art, debuted in Warsaw in 1922 and published its final two issues in Berlin. The journal was edited by the Hebrew-Yiddish poet Uri Zvi Greenberg and…
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Henryk Berlewi
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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In designing this synagogue, Alschuler drew on photographs of the remains of a second-century Byzantine synagogue in Tiberias. He wrote that he designed the synagogue “not in sense of slavish…
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Alfred S. Alschuler
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1924
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Krakauer’s work, mostly chalk and charcoal drawings on paper, was largely devoted to expressionist landscapes of Jerusalem and its environs. His unique style was characterized by short strokes, often…
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Leopold Krakauer
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1939
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A new world being made—one hears
In childhood that it has begun;
Then comes the passage of the years—
Is it not yet fully done?
The new world being made—always,
From childhood on—and on the day
The…
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Avrom Reisen
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
Date unknown, 20th century
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In this painting, the elderly proprietor selling newspapers in several languages under the elevated train in Chicago faces away from the hustle and bustle of the street. He and the newspapers are…
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Todros Geller
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1928
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The Spirit was launched in 1940 as a special supplement for newspapers, designed to help them compete with the crime and superhero comic magazines, which were then wildly popular. It ran as a…
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Will Eisner
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1940
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Jacob Epstein’s primitive style was not to everyone’s liking, especially when it came to his sculptures with biblical and religious themes. The overt sexuality of some of his sculptures also aroused…
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Jacob Epstein
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1940
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Yosl Bergner was only twenty-one years old and living in Australia when he painted this bleak picture. Many of his paintings were drawn from memories of his childhood in Warsaw but he also portrayed…
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Yosl Bergner
Places:
Victoria, Australia (Victoria, Seychelles)
Date:
1941
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After surviving the war, Miklós Adler returned to his hometown of Debrecen and created sixteen woodcuts, signing them Ben Binyamin (“son of Benjamin”) in honor of his father. In this woodcut…
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Miklós Adler
Places:
Terezin, German-occupied Czechoslovakia (Terezin, Czech Republic)
Date:
1945