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Manuscript page with drawing of building complex with inner courtyards.

Synagogue in K’ai-fêng (Kaifeng, China)

Jews first settled in Kaifeng, the capital of Henan province in central China, before 1127. According to scholars, they had come from India or Persia, spoke Persian, and worked as cotton dyers and…

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Oil painting of man in beard, furried hat, and prayer shawl looking forward and holding a Torah scroll.

Of the High Priest’s Tribe

An important Jewish genre painter, Kaufman drew inspiration for his romantic depictions of traditional Jewish life from trips to Moravia and Upper Hungary, Galicia and Bukovina and areas of Russian…

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Painting of two male figures in hats sitting on chairs opposite one another in foreground and two women sitting in the background.

Sabbath

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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Synagogue in K’ai-fêng (Kaifeng, China)

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