Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan

Two women in hats surrounded by pigeons in city plaza, with ornate doorway behind them.

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Venice

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.Born in Pittsburgh, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was brought up in Oakland, California. She graduated from Radcliffe College in…

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Photograph of room with high ceiling, tall podium up short staircase with golden canopy, and rows of wooden benches.

Scuola Greca (Corfu)

Built in the seventeenth century, the Scuola Greca is a synagogue located in the area of the ghetto in which Jews were confined in 1622, in a neighborhood still known as “Evraiki” (Jews). It is the…

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Banner with four arms pointed toward a crest in the center featuring a loaf of bread and English text, framed by Yiddish text and sheaves of wheat.

Banner of the London Bakers’ Union

This banner of the London Jewish Bakers’ Union calls for (in both English and Yiddish) an eight-hour workday and an end to night work, for people to buy only bread “with the union label,” and for…

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Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan

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