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Moses Feigin painted both realist and abstract paintings, sometimes mixing both styles in one painting. In the late 1960s, he became fascinated by the world of the carnival, seemingly evoked by the…
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Moses Feigin
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1970
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Alfred Bernheim’s intimate portrait of Hannah Arendt portrays her as casual and self-confident, lounging on a couch and smoking a cigarette. Arendt was one of the most famous intellectuals of the…
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Alfred Bernheim
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Date unknown, mid-20th century
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Anna Ticho’s life work was drawing the landscapes of the Judean Mountains and Jerusalem. In the 1950s, she was able more easily to access these landscapes when she bought a house in Motza, a town on…
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Anna Ticho
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Date unknown, mid-20th century
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Judah
Israel
Rehoboam 928–911 BCE
Jeroboam I 928–907 BCE
Abijah 911–908 BCE
Nadab 907–906 BCE
Asa 908–867 BCE
Baasha 906–883 BCE
Elah 883–882 BCE
Zimri 882 BCE
Tibni 882–878 BCE
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11th–6th Century BCE
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The end of the day approaches.
The Book of Life and Death
is about to be closed,
and the hand of God will inscribe
the destiny of man.
It hesitates, trembles, stops.
A voice, sweet and frail,
an…
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Jacques Taraboulos
Date:
1945
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In the back of a manuscript collection of astronomical texts, which includes one of Abraham ibn Ezra’s works on the use of the astrolabe (a tool for astronomical calculations), is a set of crude but…
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1629
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Amulets for the evil eye; tested. Write on either a kosher or deerskin parchment, on a day of [reading from] the Torah, before eating anything. And calculate in that hour which day it is and which…
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Unknown
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16th or 17th Century
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Song without Words, painted in Jaffa ca. 1911–1913. Like many of Jan’s works, this painting is suffused with poetic and atmospheric symbolism. Here, a beautiful young woman with haunted eyes holds a…
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1914
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“Subscription for the Year 1903 to the First Daily Zhargon [Yiddish] Newspaper in Russia, Der fraynd.Der fraynd (The Friend) was the first Yiddish daily in the Russian Empire. Founded by Shaul…
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1903