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The Harrison Miscellany is an early eighteenth-century codex of sixty leaves featuring delicate gouache illustrations and Hebrew texts. Each illustration (likely executed by a Venetian, non-Jewish…
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Artist Unknown
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Corfu, Republic of Venice (Corfu, Greece)
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ca. 1720
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These are marginal illustrations found in a manuscript siddur from Italy according to the Romaniote rite, with prayers focused on marriage and birth rituals and customs, as well as the pidyon ha-ben…
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Artist Unknown
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Parma, Duchy of Milan (Parma, Italy)
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ca. 1500
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Moses and Aaron with the Ten Commandments was painted by Aron de Chavez, a painter and engraver of Dutch origin, for the synagogue in Creechurch Lane (the first post-medieval synagogue in London) used…
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Aron de Chavez
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London, Kingdom of England (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1674/5
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The young Jewish intellectuals of Barcinski’s generation were interested in pushing boundaries, including by employing Christian imagery, as Barcinski did in this portrait of John the Baptist. The…
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Henryk (Hanokh) Barcinski
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Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1919
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Frenkel, whose work was shaped by the School of Paris (École de Paris), played a key role in bringing modernism to Israeli art. Among his students were prominent members of what is known as the Land…
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Yitshak Frenkel (Alexandre Frenkel-Frenel)
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1920
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Cabbalistic Sphere, a sculpture made from polished aluminum, is one of Kaish’s many works inspired by ancient Jewish texts. Some of her works with spiritual and metaphysical themes are abstract…
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Luise Kaish
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1975
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View of “The Liberation of G-d,” part of an installation titled Trilogy and Epilogue, in which Helène Aylon highlights misogynist passages in the Hebrew Bible and other canonical Jewish religious…
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Helène Aylon
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1996
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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