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It was in the early eighteenth century (1700–1706) when some Ottoman Jews of Spanish and Portuguese origin left Turkey to settle in Vienna. A chronicle has preserved for us the names of the three…
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Moïse Franco
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1897
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Religious forces are in fact only transfigured collective forces, that is, moral forces; they are made of ideas and feelings that the…
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Émile Durkheim
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1911
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Pissarro inhabited the French countryside villages of Pontoise and Eragny and was a keen observer of rural life. His dignified depictions of peasant labor and sociability, such as this lively poultry…
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1885
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Early in his career, Jacob Meyer de Haan (also known as Isaac Meyer de Haan) was known for his Jewish genre paintings. In this one, painted in 1880 while De Haan still resided in the Netherlands, a…
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Jacob Meyer de Haan
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1889–1892
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At midnight a soft hand touched me: “Get up.” I stepped outside the silent sleeping barracks and saw: Azrael, the angel who reigns over the dead rushed down from the night firmament, all revenge…
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Arnold Zweig
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French Republic (France, France)
Date:
1916
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Those who are engrossed by the Jewish problem and strive to resolve it approach it from the most various points of view, save that which alone would be logical—I mean the Jewish point of view.
Indeed…
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Bernard Lazare
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1898
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Alfred Wolmark painted Fisher Girl of Concarneau during a ten-week honeymoon in Concarneau, Brittany. He was fascinated by the town’s people and scenery. While in Concarneau, he painted several…
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Alfred Wolmark
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Concarneau, French Republic (Concarneau, France)
Date:
1911
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The cover of the theater program for the Ballets Russes’ seventh season is illustrated with an image of Vaslav Nijinsky wearing a costume designed by Léon Bakst for the ballet L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune…
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Léon Bakst
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1912
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In 1915, photographer Léon Gimpel began spending time with a group of children he had encountered in the Rue de Grenata neighborhood in Paris. It was during World War I, and the boys’ favorite…
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Léon Gimpel
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1915
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This is the marriage contract (ketubah) that Isaac, the son of Aaron Sasportas, gave to Rebecca, the daughter of Abraham Pinto. A floral decoration stemming from a vase at the bottom of the contract…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Bordeaux, Kingdom of France (Bordeaux, France)
Date:
1747