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The focus of this photograph is the rank-and-file participants at a socialist May Day rally, rather than the politicians delivering the speeches. Members of the Photo League maintained that it was the…
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Jerome Liebling
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1948
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Louis Stettner took this picture on his way back to the United States, after spending several years in Paris studying photography and exhibiting his work. The man and two children on the deck of a…
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Louis Stettner
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1951
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The female figure, especially dancers, were a favorite subject for Moses Soyer. He was especially inspired by Edgar Degas and Honoré Daumier, whose paintings he had the opportunity to examine…
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Moses Soyer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1954
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Cornell Capa took this picture of boys learning Torah or the Hebrew alphabet at a time when Hasidic survivors of the Holocaust were just beginning to rebuild their communities. Brooklyn, New York was…
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Cornell Capa
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Brooklyn, United States of America
Date:
1955
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This painting has both figurative and abstract elements. The shapes representing the angel are a dynamic swirl of mystical symbols. Ben-Zion often turned to the Bible for inspiration for his work. At…
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Ben-Zion
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1935
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Shahn frequently based his paintings on his own photographs. East Side Soap Box is based on a photo of Jewish workers protesting in Madison Square Park in Manhattan. The Yiddish sign reads: “Nature…
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Ben Shahn
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1936
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This painting dates to the early years of Walkowitz’s career, when he frequently painted New York cityscapes. Walkowitz’s cubist style was well suited to capturing the skyscrapers, elevated trains…
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Abraham Walkowitz
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923
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This expressionist self-portrait dates from the earliest period of Bloom’s career. He and his friend Jack Levine were the beneficiaries of a Harvard professor and patron of the arts, who provided them…
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Hyman Bloom
Places:
Boston, United States of America
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1925–1935
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A letter from Zuckerman, the commissioner, evidently written by an agitated hand. It had come from Brest Litovsk bringing the news of horror. He had been in Pinsk and…
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Boris D. Bogen
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1930
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Even in the past, some thirty to forty years ago, when Jewish life in Russia was still very conservative, there was a difference between those cities and towns located…
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Meir Berlin
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1933