Portrait of Yitzhak Katzenelson

Illustration to Sholem Aleichem, “The Haunted Tailor”

Sholem Aleichem’s grotesque story “The Haunted Tailor” tells of a poor, witless tailor who is sent on a mission to buy a milk-giving goat, who turns out to be possessed. In the Soviet Union, it was…

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Paper cut in the shape of a two-headed eagle with spread wings, filled with Hebrew writing.

Birth Amulet, Habsburg Galicia (Ukraine)

This impressive cut-paper birth amulet is in the form of the double eagle, the symbol of the Habsburg Monarchy (and pre-partition Poland) and thus a popular motif in Galician Jewish folk art. It is…

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Abstract painting of figures made up of geometric shapes with arms raised and distraught expressions standing over figure lying in middle of floor in white robes.

Nocturne (Death of a Soldier)

Nocturne was painted after Marcel Janco and his family moved to Palestine. Showing two men ministering to a mortally wounded soldier, surrounded by weeping, lamenting figures, the painting creates a…

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Portrait of Yitzhak Katzenelson

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Illustration to Sholem Aleichem, “The Haunted Tailor”

Birth Amulet, Habsburg Galicia (Ukraine)

Nocturne (Death of a Soldier)