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The Unité d'habitation of Nantes-Rezé is an apartment building located in Rezé, a suburb of Nantes, France designed by Le Corbusier. Lucien Hervé photographed the building, as he did many buildings…
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Lucien Hervé
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1952–1954
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The title of this painting, La Kahena, alludes to a seventh-century military Berber queen who opposed the Arab conquest of North Africa. Legend has it that she was Jewish and also a sorceress. The…
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Jean-Michel Atlan
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Paris, France
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1958
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Between 1909 and 1915, Amedeo Modigliani created about twenty-five stone sculptures, using techniques he learned from the modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi. The sculptures were inspired by…
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1911–1912
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This synagogue, located in Carpentras, in Provence, was built in 1367 but went through serious repairs and was remodeled between 1741 and 1744 by a local civil engineer Antoine D’Allemand, in the…
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Artist Unknown
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Carpentras, Kingdom of France (Carpentras, France)
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1741–1744
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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)
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1920
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By the time she created this statue of David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of the State of Israel, Chana Orloff had moved away from the cubist style she favored early in her career to a more…
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Chana Orloff
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Paris, France
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1949
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Program cover of a 1911 performance of the Ballet Russe at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, showing Léon Bakst’s costume design for Narcisse.
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Léon Bakst
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1911
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Mané-Katz was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Jews from Eastern and Central Europe. Mané-Katz painted in a modernist style but…
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Emmanuel Mané-Katz
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1930
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For the first time they earned some money. They did not like their work; could they have liked it? But they did not dislike it a great deal either. They felt they were learning a lot from it. Year…
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Georges Perec
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Paris, France
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1965
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Behold the Valiant, the five cousins and sworn friends, newly come unto Geneva, mark them well, these men of silver tongue, these Jews of sunnier climes and even finer words, proud to have remained…
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Albert Cohen
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Geneva, Switzerland
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1968