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The cover of the theater program for the Ballets Russes’ seventh season is illustrated with an image of Vaslav Nijinsky wearing a costume designed by Léon Bakst for the ballet L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune…
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Léon Bakst
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1912
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Issachar Ber Ryback’s drawings of the painted ceiling of what was known as the Cold Synagogue in Mogilev (today in Belarus) are among the few visual records of the work of the painter Chaim ben…
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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1916
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The machine-woven rugs produced by the Torah u-mel’aḥah trade school in Jerusalem for export to France were typically red and rectangular (similar to Turkish prayer carpets), and they featured the…
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Alliance Israélite Universelle School of Crafts
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1901–1910
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This photograph was made by the young graphic artist and photographer Solomon Yudovin in the context of his participation in Jewish writer, folklorist, and cultural activist S. An-ski’s famed…
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Solomon Yudovin
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Volynskaya, Russian Empire (Volyn, Ukraine)
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1912–1914
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The Jewish Publication Society of America (JPS) was founded in Philadelphia in 1888. (It had a number of precursors that did not last.) Today, JPS is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher…
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Moses Ezekiel
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913
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Cover of sheet music for “Hatikvoh” (The Hope) and “Dort vu die tseder” (There Where the Cedars Are). “Hatikvoh,” or “Hatikvah,” is based on Naftali Hertz Imber’s poem, “Tikvatenu” (Our Hope), first…
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Naftali Herz Imber
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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ca. 1910
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Illustration from the German translation of Morris Rosenfeld’s Yiddish “sweatshop” poems, Lieder des Ghetto (Songs from the Ghetto). The illustrations in the deluxe book are in the art nouveau style…
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Ephraim Moses Lilien
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1902
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The soldier-artist Raphael Avraham Shalem used found objects, such as shell cases, as the material for his artworks. On this shell casing, he engraved a view of Rachel’s Tomb, a site revered by Jews…
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Raphael Avraham Shalem
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ca. 1915
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The Great Synagogue of Lutsk (Łuck) in Ukraine was built in 1626. Renaissance in style, the synagogue is an example of a fortress synagogue, built not only as a house of worship but also with the…
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Artist Unknown
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Lutsk (Łuck), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lutsk, Ukraine)
Date:
17th Century
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The Rema Synagogue, named after the famous rabbi and scholar Moses Isserles (known by the Hebrew acronym “Rema”), was built in 1553 in the city of Kazimierz (today a district of Kraków). It was…
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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Early 18th Century