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Rembrandt van Rijn lived in the part of Amsterdam where the artists’ guild (St. Luke’s Guild) was located. By coincidence, it was also home to a number of Jews. Rembrandt’s artworks attest to an…
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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1647
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This postage stamp with an image of King Leopold I of Belgium was the first stamp issued on the European continent.
Contributor:
Jacques Wiener
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Brussels, Kingdom of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium)
Date:
1849
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This engraving depicting a tailor’s workshop was printed along with others portraying Jewish immigrant life in London, England, in the Illustrated London News in 1891.
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Ellen Gertrude Cohen
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London, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1891
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Shmuel Schulman’s micrograph is a tribute to Ḥoveve Zion, members of a nineteenth-century Zionist movement that sent pioneers to Palestine to develop settlements funded by Baron Edmond James de…
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Shmuel Schulman
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)
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Early 20th Century
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This drawing of a gathering hosted by Dr. Hermann Adler, the chief rabbi of Great Britain (wearing a yarmulke and standing at right), represents the adaptation of the British custom of high tea to the…
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Solomon J. Solomon
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United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (United Kingdom, United Kingdom)
Date:
1906
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A month after the birth of future Emperor Joseph II (March 13, 1741), the Jews of Prague held a festive procession in honor of the happy event. The procession, which was planned and led by the…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czechia)
Date:
1741
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Pages from Mark Podwal’s A Book of Hebrew Letters, an exploration of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet through drawings and words representing each letter.
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Mark Podwal
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1992
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Cover of Sikhes-khulin: Eyne fun di geshikhtn (Small Talk, or, The Legend of Prague) by Moyshe Broderzon, with illustrations by El Lissitzky. The book is an example of a new modernist style that…
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El Lissitzky
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917
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In Alexander Tyshler’s illustration for a Yiddish version of the Sleeping Beauty story, characters seated around a table are packed together like puzzle pieces, enclosed in a rectangular shape from…
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Aleksandr Tyshler
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1918
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This card for Rosh Hashanah plays on the common Jewish experience of immigration to the United States to offer the traditional New Year’s wishes of long life, health, happiness, and success. Framing…
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German Empire (Germany, Germany)
Date:
1908