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Samson Wertheimer (1658–1724) occupied a number of prominent roles, including court Jew, Austrian financier, and chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia. This portrait was painted around the time when he…
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Artist Unknown
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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ca. 1700
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Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, one of the world’s foremost philosophers, was born in Amsterdam to parents of Portuguese New Christian origin and educated in the Talmud Torah of the Portuguese Sephardic…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1665
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Early in his career, Castel often painted pictures of Jews, like these, whose roots were in Arab lands. Many at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied, believed that Yemenite Jews…
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Moshe Castel
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1926
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Weissberg was a member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of them Jews from Central and Eastern Europe who had settled in Paris. Weissberg was a well-liked habitué…
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Léon Weissberg
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1926
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Solomon Mikhoels (1890–1948), a Yiddish actor, director of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (GOSET), and later chair of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, was an iconic figure of Soviet Jewish…
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Natan Altman
Date:
1927
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Dobrinsky was a member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Jews from Eastern and Central Europe. Dobrinsky’s friend and fellow artist Léon Weissberg…
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Isaac Dobrinsky
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1925–1935
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This “imaginary wall” in Raphael Soyer’s studio features (clockwise, from top left) a self-portrait; portraits of the artists Nicolai Cikovsky, Moses Soyer, and Chaim Gross. In the center is the…
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Raphael Soyer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1947
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Self-Portrait in Blue Bathroom, London, 1980 is the first of a series of photographs called The Ballad of Sexual Dependency that Goldin created over ten years, beginning in 1976, and which was…
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Nan Goldin
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1980
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Commissioned to document people in their workplaces by a magazine, Edelstein was inspired to launch a project of photographing workers all over the world. Part of his series focused on shopkeepers…
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Seymour Edelstein
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1988
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Despite gender restrictions, Jewish women played central roles as religious leaders in the early modern period. Meet the female leader of one of the most controversial cults in Jewish history.
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Brno, Holy Roman Empire (Brno, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1771