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In the late 1950s. Marc Chagall began to work on stained-glass windows for the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Each of the twelve windows that were ultimately created for the hospital’s…
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Marc Chagall
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1962
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“Insist on yourself . . .” is from the series Great Ideas of Western Man, an innovative advertising campaign by the Container Corporation of America, which ran from 1950 to 1975. Its mission was to…
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Pedro Friedeberg
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1964
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In the 1960s, Howard Kanovitz began using photographs to develop his own distinct style of photorealism. He made drawings of the figures in photographs and abstracted them into fields of color…
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Howard Kanovitz
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1966
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Sholem Aleichem’s grotesque story “The Haunted Tailor” tells of a poor, witless tailor who is sent on a mission to buy a milk-giving goat, who turns out to be possessed. In the Soviet Union, it was…
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Hersh (Grigory) Inger
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USSR (Soviet Union)
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1968
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In the 1960s, Audrey Flack began to paint photorealistic pictures with social and political themes, reproducing photographs of people from all walks of life, as well as everyday objects. Farb Family…
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Audrey Flack
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New York, United States of America
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1969–1970
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During the time that Erich Goldberg served on the faculty of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, he produced several silver objects, inspired by Yemenite silver craft. Green stones of…
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Erich Goldberg
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1911–1914
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Between 1909 and 1915, Amedeo Modigliani created about twenty-five stone sculptures, using techniques he learned from the modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi. The sculptures were inspired by…
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1911–1912
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Ira Jan created this hagiographical depiction of her lover Chaim Nahman Bialik being anointed by angels as a child shortly before she was deported by Ottoman authorities to Egypt. Her romantic…
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Ira Jan
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1914
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Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) in costume for the solo dance The Dying Swan, a role especially created for her, and which she performed an estimated four thousand times. Born in St. Petersburg and brought…
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Photographer Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1909
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The mannerist and baroque Great Synagogue of Tykocin, Poland, was built in 1642. The synagogue was damaged during World War II and in the years following, but was restored in the 1970s, including its…
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Artist Unknown
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Tykocin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)
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1642