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This engraving depicting a Jewish woman in Cairo, Egypt, is from Cornelis de Bruyn’s travelogue, Reizen van Corn de Bruyn door de vermaardste deelen van Klein Asia, de eylanden Scio, Rhodus, Cyprus…
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Cornelis de Bruyn
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1714
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[May] your mornings [be] blessed,
[May] your life [be] long,
[May] your enemies [be] shrouded, dead,
[May] your [hot] breakfasts [be] poured, cooled.
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The Jews of Zakho, Kurdistan
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Zakho, Ottoman Empire (Zakho, Iraq)
Date:
17th Century
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When I try to think which game I like the most, I usually think of make-believe acting games. Even if they’re without masks, funny clothes, or old shoes with wrinkled tongues. Even if there’s no…
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Uzzi Ben Cnaan
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1979
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Sally and her friends were in the playhouse in Sally’s backyard. It wasn’t a baby kind of playhouse for dolls. It was a big sturdy house that her father and Douglas had built. It was painted white…
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Judy Blume
Places:
Scarsdale, United States of America
Date:
1977
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And around us loomed the mountains, various heights, various shapes, squeezed together or clambering atop one another. Some were terrifying with their rugged lines, some were soft and delicate like a…
Contributor:
Hersh Dovid Nomberg
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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To make chocolate, coffee, and milk you will need the following utensils:
A pan, galvanized on the inside, or a saucepan made of coarse tinned zinc with two iron…
Contributor:
Ephraim Raskin
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1912
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Before World War I, Bomberg depicted the East End of London, where he had grown up, as a site of immigrant vitality. After a harrowing experience in the trenches and difficulties after the war…
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David Bomberg
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1920
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Adam Muszka likely painted this scene from memory. As a child, he had attended cheder, a traditional Jewish elementary school, in his native Piotrków Trybunalski, a Polish town of about 51,000…
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Adam Muszka
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Date unknown, mid-20th century
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Gross was known for his wooden sculptures and his focus on the human figure. He first studied art on the Lower East Side of Manhattan when he came to the United States and he later taught there at the…
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Chaim Gross
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1928
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Black ants crawl over nicotine-stained fingertips
dipping a mint leaf into the glass.
The alcohol dismantles Abd al-Wahab’s
“Cleopatra.”
Now all is clear
solo violin
solo flute
solo oud
we’re…
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Ronny Someck
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1973