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Abraham from Odessa changed his name. He had to if he wanted to get ahead at Ford where he got a job painting stripes on Model Ts. Fifty years later Albert retired, a vice-president in the tractor…
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Ken Aptekar
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New York, United States of America
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1996
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Memorial, like many of Bak’s paintings, evokes the ruins incurred by the Holocaust, in this case symbolized by the shards of shattered Jewish tombstones, possibly hinting at the two tablets of law. A…
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Samuel Bak
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Lausanne, Switzerland
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1986
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Bulatov created many paintings that paired nature scenes with Soviet slogans, suggesting the pervasiveness of the Soviet regime, extending to every corner of its citizens’ lives. Here, in Trademark…
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Eric Bulatov
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1986
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The iconography in Pichhadze’s paintings from the 1980s defies easy definition. This untitled work incorporates both abstract and figurative elements. The framed “nature” scene with its butterflies…
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Meir Pichhadze
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1987
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Gershuni was a significant figure in the Israeli art scene, and over the course of his career, his art underwent dramatic changes in style and themes. His life work is evidence of his assertion from…
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Moshe Gershuni
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1988
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Tikkun Ha-Olam (Repair of the World) is from Benjamin’s Finding Home series, in which the Bombay-born Jewish artist raises questions about what and where “home” is, while addressing issues such as…
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Siona Benjamin
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2000
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Yitzhak Katzenelson (1885–1944) was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet from Łódź who was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he was extraordinarily prolific as a poet, playwright, translator and public…
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Lea Lilienblum
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1943
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Felix Nussbaum painted this self-portrait while he and his wife were in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, about a year before they were arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Every element of the picture…
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Felix Nussbaum
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1943
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Moses Reinblatt served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, first as a mechanic and then as an aircraftman. In August 1944, he was appointed an official war artist and was posted in…
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Moses Reinblatt
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1945
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Though Lippy Lipshitz was best known as a sculptor, he produced a small body of paintings, including this watercolor. Its dark palette is similar to that of other pictures he made in the 1940s…
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Lippy Lipshitz
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1947