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Mural featuring children holding hands, interspersed with adult figures, with modern city in background on left, ornate temples and mountains in background in center, and temples with cultic figures in background on right.

Guide

Diverse Diasporas in the Postwar Period

1945–1973

Photograph of arched entrance to building with Hebrew over lintel.

Guide

Jews Arrive in the New World

1500–1750

Painting of man and woman dancing to the accompaniment of a harmonica player, with people watching from sofa.

Source

Dancing Lesson

Raphael Soyer

1926

Photograph of woman in headscarf looking toward camera, holding bucket and paintbrush next to wall, with woman behind her looking at camera.

Source

Jewish Woman of Safed Whitewashing Her Home in Preparation for Pessah

Luciano Morpurgo

1927

Painting of man in hat with stern expression on a busy city street next to a collage of newspapers.

Source

Strange Worlds

Todros Geller

1928

Image of rectangular building with Star of David on side.

Source

Reform Synagogue, Plauen

Fritz Landauer

1928–1930

Painting of men wearing top hats seated and standing in crowded, decorated room with columns and Torah ark in background.

Source

Service in the Great Synagogue to Mark the Tercentenary of the Ashkenazi Community on 14 November 1935

Martin Monnickendam

1935

Painting of man addressing audience holding a sign of Yiddish text.

Source

East Side Soap Box

Ben Shahn

1936

Photograph of people standing outside along stairwell and storefronts.

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Hester Street

Sol Libsohn

ca. 1938

Aerial photograph of hundreds of people crowded together on beach with amusement park in background.

Source

Coney Island Beach

Weegee

1940

Photograph of woman in a dress and hat walking across a city street with cars, people, and buildings in the background.

Source

Midtown Manhattan

Rebecca Lepkoff

1947

Photograph depicting painted advertisement of a woman on wall of brick building next to a clothesline on adjacent wall.

Source

Lower Eastside Façade

Erika Stone

1947