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The Rise of Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism is a phenomenon of man’s restless spirit. At its best it is a dynamic faith—and its very dynamism…

Painting of fearful father, mother, and two children in the foreground outside of city buildings, and large cat with a rat in its mouth on top of the buildings in the background.

Refugees is very different in style from Josef Herman’s later work. In 1948, the artist disowned his earlier paintings (which he felt were too derivative of Chagall’s paintings) and destroyed most of…

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Print of half-body portrait of man underneath sun and Hebrew writing.

Self Portrait in his Map of Eretz Israel

When Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik created the first printed map of the Holy Land in Hebrew, he included this portrait of himself. The Hebrew under the image of the sun intertwined with a Star of David…

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