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Jewish Street in Amsterdam is one of the many landscapes that Tina Blau painted in her career. It is painted in the style of Austrian Stimmungsimpressionismus (atmospheric impressionism), which was…
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Tina Blau
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1875–1876
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Johanna Maria Jenny Lind (born Johanna Maria Lind, 1820–1887) was known as the “Swedish Nightingale” and was one of the most highly regarded singers of the nineteenth century. After performing in…
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Eduard Magnus
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1846
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A woman holding an infant sits on a rock under a gloomy sky at twilight or dawn. In the background is the wreck of a boat. Julius Muhr painted other sentimental and romantic paintings like this one…
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Julius Muhr
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Munich, German Confederation (Munich, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1860s
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David Yakerson’s Adam and Eve dates from a time before his turn to the much more abstract style of suprematism. In this illustration, Adam and Eve blend in with other decorative elements in a…
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David Yakerson
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1918
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Self-Portrait with Candles is a rare example of a work with a Jewish theme by Lily Delissa Joseph. Here she has painted herself holding two Sabbath candles. Her head is covered, as is traditional for…
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Lily Delissa Joseph
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
ca. 1906
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The pen-on-paper Tu tournes lentement, an example of surrealist automatic painting, depicts women and fragmented humanoid shapes in dance-like movement. It was drawn by Paul Păun during World War II…
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Paul Paun
Date:
1943
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This German amulet is printed with unique designs. The names of the three angels, Sanoi, Sansanoi, and Smangalaf, indicate the use of this amulet as birth protection for mother and child, as…
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1750
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This woodcut depicts Jewish women and girls lighting candles to mark the beginning of the Sabbath or a holiday. The illustration appears in a Yiddish translation by Shim’on Levi Gintsburg, printed in…
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Isaac Tyrnau, Shim’on Levi Gintsburg
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1600
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This ketubah (marriage contract) from London was written for the marriage of Isaac di Matos-Lopes and Sarah di Matos-Lopes. It also has, as one of its signatories, prominent scholar David Nieto, first…
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David Nieto
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1724
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This watercolor from the Gennadius Library’s Costume Album collection, in Athens, depicts two Jewish women—a widow (left) and a married woman (right)—in the colorful traditional attire of…
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Artist Unknown
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1574