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Many of Robert Capa’s war photographs are of solitary soldiers or small groups of fighters (such as this one, of Israeli troops during Israel’s War of Independence) rather than scenes of heroism on…
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Robert Capa
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1948
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In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I issued a statute that effectively made Russian Jews liable to military service, as part of a policy that sought to transform the Jewish population into integrated subjects who…
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Artist Unknown
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Shkudy, Russian Empire (Skuodas, Lithuania)
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1864–1867
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Phoenician ship in Assyrian relief from palace of Sennacherib (reigned 705–681 BCE), Nineveh. Transport galleys flee Tyre in the face of Sennacherib’s attack in 701 BCE. Soldiers and passengers stand…
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ca. 700 BCE
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Impaled corpses at Lachish, detail from Assyrian relief in the Nineveh palace of Sennacherib (reigned 705–681 BCE), depicting the conquest of Lachish in 701 BCE. For the full relief see Conquest of…
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Iron Age II, 7th Century BCE
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Chariots trampling enemies and burning city in drawing of late 8th century BCE Assyrian relief in Sargon’s palace in Khorsabad, Iraq. One of Sargon’s horse-drawn chariots, its driver holding a whip…
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Late 8th Century BCE
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Remembrance was commissioned by Congregation Agudas Achim in Bexley, Ohio. The nine-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicts smoke rising from a crematorium, intertwined with the arm of a survivor…
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Alfred Tibor
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Columbus, United States of America
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1974
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Shooting Targets, five photographs by Ophir that appear in the Necropolis Series, a joint work with Roi Kuper, depict Mercedes jeeps captured by the Israeli army during the Six Day War and Yom Kippur…
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Gilad Ophir
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1997
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Sheep and rams frequently appear in the sculptures of Kadishman, a legacy of time spent as a shepherd in his youth. Sacrifice of Isaac is a reimagining of the biblical story of the Akedah, in which…
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Menashe Kadishman
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1985
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Ninio’s art focuses on putting everyday objects into new contexts, which change their original functions, posing questions about the nature of their reality, by opening them up to new relationships…
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Moshe Ninio
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1987
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Weinfeld, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, produced artworks addressing the question of who she would have been if she had herself been a prisoner in a concentration camp? Would she have been…
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Yocheved Weinfeld
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New York, United States of America
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1990