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Above Eternal Peace is Isaak Levitan’s most famous painting, a revered example of the “mood landscapes” popular in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century. The artist painted the view from a cliff…
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Isaak Levitan
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Vyshniy Volochëk, Russian Empire (Vyshny Volochyok, Russia)
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1894
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This rainy streetscape exemplifies the style and subject matter for which Lesser Ury is best known. The Kurfürstendamm is one of Berlin’s most storied boulevards, known for its very wide walking paths…
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Lesser Ury
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1910
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In this cubist-influenced self-portrait, the artist has painted herself reflected in a mirror, perhaps a symbol of a divided self. The upturned vessels on the table communicate a sense of upheaval…
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Sofia Dymshits-Tolstaya
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
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1915
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Rabbi Abraham Bloch was a French army chaplain, killed in 1914 while holding a crucifix for a dying Catholic soldier. In 1934 the French government erected a monument in his memory at the spot where…
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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer
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Algiers, French Protectorate of Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)
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1917
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Three representatives of the Prague Burial Society in the 1730s are pictured in these portraits: Jonas Jeitteles (1735–1806, the community’s official physician), Rabbi Leib Fayvel Dayan (another…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1733
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Here, Catherine da Costa, the first known female Jewish painter, has painted her daughter and granddaughter to resemble a Madonna and child. An unidentified woman leans over the infant, seemingly…
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Catherine da Costa
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1745
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Early in his career, Castel often painted pictures of Jews, like these, whose roots were in Arab lands. Many at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied, believed that Yemenite Jews…
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Moshe Castel
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1926
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Solomon Mikhoels (1890–1948), a Yiddish actor, director of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (GOSET), and later chair of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, was an iconic figure of Soviet Jewish…
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Natan Altman
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1927
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The Only Corner illustrates Yaker’s ability to depict nature in its varied beauty and to express cultural meaning in his work. The same year he exhibited this painting, Yaker showed a series of works…
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Moico Yaker
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Lima, Peru
Date:
2002
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In 2001, Nathanson decided she wanted to explore points of connection between abstract art and Jewish ideas. She and Arnold Eisen (then a professor at Stanford University; later chancellor of the…
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Jill Nathanson
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2005