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Ira Jan
It is my task to introduce to the readers of Múlt és Jövő (Past and Future) to an extraordinary Jewish woman, and it is hard to tell whether she is a greater writer or artist. Those who say…
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Imre (Dunajecz Jakab) Abadi
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1914
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The Bechhofen Synagogue (built in 1685) is believed to have been the largest wooden synagogue in Germany. The interior of the synagogue was painted with lavish decorations in 1732 and 1733, in typical…
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Eliezer Zusman of Brody
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Bechhofen, Holy Roman Empire (Bechhofen, Germany)
Date:
1684
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Yehudah Pen painted this portrait of Marc Chagall soon after Chagall returned to Vitebsk from Paris in order to marry his sweetheart, Bella. While he was there, World War I broke out, and Chagall was…
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Yehudah Pen
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1914
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Arnold Böcklin is dead—yet who among you knew that he lived? If I were to tell you that he was the man who knew how, with paintbrush dipped in colors upon a piece of canvas, to shake every heart…
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David Frishman
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1901