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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…
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…
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)…
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…
Ernst Josephson painted David and Saul early in his career, when he was working with mostly historical and biblical subjects. Here a young, eroticized David plays a lyre for a darkly brooding King…
This medal by master engraver Charles Wiener honors the Jewish philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885) and his wife, Lady Judith Montefiore (1784–1862). Montefiore was an activist on behalf of…
Mark Antokolski began his career as a sculptor by focusing on Jewish themes, but he soon moved on to portrayals of historical figures. This monumental sculpture, Ivan the Terrible, was purchased by…
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…
[ . . . ] The past two years of the Hitler regime (1938–1939) have led many people to the impression that this is the beginning of the destruction of European…
When I stand before you here, Judges of Israel, to lead the Prosecution of Adolf Eichmann, I am not standing alone. With me are six million accusers. But they cannot rise to their…