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Over the course of five years, from 1980 to 1985, Davidson rode the subway for six hundred miles, with the aim of documenting the diversity and uniqueness of the passengers. At a time when the subway…
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Bruce Davidson
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New York, United States of America
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1980
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Mark Markov-Grinberg took this atmospheric nighttime photograph after he lost his job at the Russian news agency TASS, during the Soviet campaign against Jews. He and other former Jewish…
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Mark Markov-Grinberg
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1953
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This is the second version of First Class: The Meeting—And at First Meeting Loved painted by Abraham Solomon. A young man in naval uniform talks with an older man and a young woman, who sits near the…
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Abraham Solomon
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London, United Kingdom
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1855
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The heading of this advertisement for an “excursion” offered by the Yiddish daily newspaper Forverts reads: “From where are you a landsman?” (i.e., What town did you come from in the old county?). It…
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The Forward
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1898
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When Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik created the first printed map of the Holy Land in Hebrew, he included this portrait of himself. The Hebrew under the image of the sun intertwined with a Star of David…
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Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1620/21
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In 1391, Isaac ben Sheshet Perfet (known as Rivash), a respected rabbinic scholar and author of numerous responsa, suffered from the violent riots and mass conversions in Spain but then fled to…
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Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)
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ca. 1870
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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.Born in Pittsburgh, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was brought up in Oakland, California. She graduated from Radcliffe College in…
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Photographer Unknown
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Venice, Kingdom of Italy (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1908
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This card for Rosh Hashanah plays on the common Jewish experience of immigration to the United States to offer the traditional New Year’s wishes of long life, health, happiness, and success. Framing…
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German Empire (Germany, Germany)
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1908
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This hand-drawn map of Hebron, Israel, is from an autograph manuscript of Melekhet Shelomoh (The Work of Solomon), Solomon Adeni’s commentary on the Mishnah.
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Solomon Adeni
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Hebron, Ottoman Empire (Hebron, Palestine)
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ca. 1611
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By the time this sea pilot’s map of Suriname was created in 1680, there was a well-established Jewish community there. In the 1660s, Jewish communities arose on the Caribbean islands of Martinique…
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Hendrik Doncker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1688