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Yosl Bergner was only twenty-one years old and living in Australia when he painted this bleak picture. Many of his paintings were drawn from memories of his childhood in Warsaw but he also portrayed…
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Yosl Bergner
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Victoria, Australia (Victoria, Seychelles)
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1941
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In The Turkish Family, the term Turkish is likely a placeholder for a portrait of a modern Sephardic Jewish family like that of the artist. Notably, the family members wear modern European fashions…
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Jules Pascin
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1907
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Painting in an expressionist style, Tofel was involved in the Jewish Art Center in New York (1925–1927) that held exhibitions on Yiddish culture. He was also active in a group of American Yiddish…
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Jennings Tofel
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Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Second Polish Republic (Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland)
Date:
1929
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Iofin’s portrait of his parents, painted before his emigration from the Soviet Union, was a sly protest against Socialist Realism. He painted in the style but parodied it by overloading his picture…
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Michael Iofin
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1984
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To ward off depression while living as a refugee in France, Charlotte Salomon began telling the story of her life in the form of a drama, in hundreds of gouache paintings. This painting depicts her…
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Charlotte Salomon
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1941–1943
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Ḥad Gadya (One Little Goat) is a song customarily sung at the end of the Passover seder. It recounts a sequence of events beginning with a young goat purchased by the protagonist’s father that is then…
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El Lissitzky
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1918
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Mourning activities, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 1380 BCE. Sitting on the ground and putting dust on the head are expressions of mourning, as in this mural showing a widow with the mummy of her husband…
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ca. 1380 BCE
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This watercolor sketch of uprooted Jews arriving in the Warsaw Ghetto was one of many artworks Rynecki made while incarcerated there. Before the war, many of his paintings documented the vibrancy of…
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Moshe Rynecki
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1939
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Abel Pann devoted much of his artistic career to painting and drawing scenes from the Hebrew Bible. Like other Jewish artists who worked in this genre, such as Ephraim Moses Lilien and Ze’ev Raban, he…
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Abel Pann
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1945
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The Christian parable of the prodigal son, from Luke 15:11–12, was a favorite subject of artists from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century. A son squanders his inheritance and is reduced to…
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Henry Mosler
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1879