Scuola Grande Tedesca (Venice)

Printed page of Hebrew text in center and decorative border around page with urns, flowers, vines, and faces.

Polyglot Bible (Constantinople)

This is the frontispiece and first page of the Constantinople Polyglot Bible, the first of two multilingual editions of the Pentateuch printed by Eliezer Soncino in Constantinople. It contained the…

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Drawing of young boy in collared shirt and tie.

Portrait of a Boy in a White Shirt (Self-Portrait)

This expressionist self-portrait dates from the earliest period of Bloom’s career. He and his friend Jack Levine were the beneficiaries of a Harvard professor and patron of the arts, who provided them…

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Painting of men next to lectern and staircase crowding around young boy.

The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple with the Scholars

When Max Liebermann first exhibited this painting, it caused not only a sensation but a scandal. Some critics objected to a Jew daring to depict Jesus, and they were offended by Liebermann’s realistic…

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