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The wooden synagogue in Jabłonów was built in the second half of the seventeenth century. Its walls were covered in colorful paintings. It was burned down at the beginning of World War I by Russian…
Contributor:
Alois Breier
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Jablonow, Russian Empire (Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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The Steerage is considered Alfred Stieglitz’s masterpiece. It marks a departure from the painterly approach he had previously championed in favor of paying more attention to forms, a reflection of his…
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Alfred Stieglitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1907
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Leon Gimpel made improvements to the technology of the autochrome that shortened the exposure time needed for a color photograph to be taken. His color photographs are rare documents of everyday life…
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Léon Gimpel
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1909
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This scene is from the 1917 Vilna Troupe production of Fishl Bimko’s Ganovim (Robbers), featuring, from left to right, Morris Tarlov, Avrom Teytlboym, Herts Grosbard, Luba Kadison, and Noyekh Nakhbush…
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Vilna Troupe, Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1917
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Alfred Bernheim’s intimate portrait of Hannah Arendt portrays her as casual and self-confident, lounging on a couch and smoking a cigarette. Arendt was one of the most famous intellectuals of the…
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Alfred Bernheim
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Date unknown, mid-20th century
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Vishniac’s photographs of Jews in Eastern Europe, which were among the last to document these communities before their destruction in the Holocaust, have become iconic images. The best known of them…
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Roman Vishniac
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935–1938
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The Hebrew sign in this photograph, from the 1927 municipal election in Tel Aviv in 1927, urges: “Vote gimel” (the Hebrew letter on the ballot representing a particular party or slate of candidates)…
Contributor:
Zvi Orushkes (Oron)
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1927
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Bassan is particularly well known for his photographs of the Old Yishuv, the community of Jews established well before the arrival of Zionist pioneers. He was the first Jewish photographer born in…
Contributor:
Tsadok Bassan
Places:
Jerusalem (Palestine, Palestine)
Date:
1920–1929
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I have a great coat. I have round black eyes. I have a cap. I raise my hands. I am the boy whose hands are raised in the picture.
Contributor:
Dani Horowitz
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978
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© 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Contributor:
Louis Stettner
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1975