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Gigantomachy I belongs to a series of paintings Leon Golub made in the 1960s and early 1970s named for a mythological battle between Olympian gods and a race of giants. The monumentally large mural…
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Leon Golub
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1965
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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
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1936
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Maurice Ascalon, sometimes called the father of modern Israeli decorative arts, was commissioned to create this sculpture for the façade of the Palestine Pavilion of the 1939 New York World’s Fair…
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Maurice Ascalon
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Mandate Palestine (Palestine)
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1939
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The Hebrew sign in this photograph, from the 1927 municipal election in Tel Aviv in 1927, urges: “Vote gimel” (the Hebrew letter on the ballot representing a particular party or slate of candidates)…
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Zvi Orushkes (Oron)
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1927
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The Folkspartei (Folk Party), which championed the goal of Jewish national autonomy in the diaspora, was founded in Saint Petersburg in 1906 under the leadership of the historian Simon Dubnow and…
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Solomon Yudovin
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Vitebsk, USSR (Vitebsk, Belarus)
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ca. 1918
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Seven versts from Kaunas stood the oldest fortress in Lithuania. After the war, it was all battered and shot up. Bricks and scraps of iron lay strewn about the place, which had once stored weapons and…
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Khane
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Kovno, Lithuania (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1932
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During the summer of 5679 [1919] the government suddenly stopped supporting Tarbut and its schools, and after regaining our composure, we decided to address [Anatoly] Lunacharsky regarding this…
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Jacob Mazeh
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Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1936
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[ . . . ] Not only did Jews not have anything to do, even remotely, with oppositional circles expressing discontent with the…
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Lev Deutsch (Deich)
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Petrograd, USSR (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1924
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Words of Ahiqar, Elephantine, 5th century BCE. This Aramaic manuscript contains the oldest-known version of Ahiqar, a wisdom book that includes proverbs similar to those found in the biblical book of…
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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Fifth Century BCE
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The situation of our brethren in Germany is so frightful that it is unparalleled since the Middle Ages and the time of the decrees of 1648 and 1649. [ . . . ] In “cultured” Germany an enemy has arisen…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
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Vilna, Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1933