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This intricately decorated ketubah (marriage contract) marks the marriage of Gabriel ben Hezekiah Amron to Simḥa bat Shabbetai mi-Segni. It is richly decorated with biblical miniatures, including one…
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Artist Unknown
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1734
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Fink is well known for his photographs of upper-crust Americans at weddings, parties, and other occasions where wealth and status are on display, as in this photograph where objects take priority over…
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Larry Fink
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1995
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Ruth Schloss’s artworks were infused with her commitment to social justice and egalitarianism. This painting of a ma‘abarah (refugee absorption camp), made at a time when the new State of Israel was…
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Ruth Schloss
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1953
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Nahalat Binyamin Street was the longest road in the city during Tel Aviv’s earliest years. In the 1920s, it was paved and became Tel Aviv’s main commercial street. Over the next few decades, new…
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Rudi Weissenstein
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1954
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The hotels designed by Morris Lapidus in the 1950s and 1960s, including the Fontainebleau, were pioneers of what came to be known as “Miami Modern” (MiMo), the signature style of resort hotels in…
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Morris Lapidus
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Miami, United States of America
Date:
1955
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In what became an iconic image of the civil rights movement, Abraham Joshua Heschel was photographed marching with other civil rights leaders from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on March 21, 1965.…
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Photographer Unknown
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Selma, United States of America
Date:
1965
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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)
Date:
1911–1914
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The elaborate art-nouveau tomb of the wealthy Schmidl family in the Rákoskeresztúr Jewish cemetery in Budapest is made of ceramic tile made by the Zsolnay factory, famous for its art-nouveau ceramics…
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Béla Latja, Ödön Lechner
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1903
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This scene is from the 1917 Vilna Troupe production of Fishl Bimko’s Ganovim (Robbers), featuring, from left to right, Morris Tarlov, Avrom Teytlboym, Herts Grosbard, Luba Kadison, and Noyekh Nakhbush…
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Vilna Troupe, Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1917
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Originating from the Iberian Peninsula, the de Pinto family were wealthy merchant bankers who lived in Amsterdam from the seventeenth century on. In Spain, members of the family had converted to…
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Abraham Rademaker
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1730/1