Destruction of the Ghetto
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This graphic depiction of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Tale of a Goat”) juxtaposes the collective memory of the exodus from Egypt with Soviet revolutionary art and politics.
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Weber was one of the few American modernists to paint religious subjects. He painted Sabbath around the time he became associated with a group of American Yiddish writers called Di yunge (The Young…
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The Shohet (from “Had Gadya”)
The violence of the Passover song “Had Gadya” (“Who Knows One”) clearly spoke to this illustrator’s sense of horror following World War I.