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Shahn frequently based his paintings on his own photographs. East Side Soap Box is based on a photo of Jewish workers protesting in Madison Square Park in Manhattan. The Yiddish sign reads: “Nature…
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Ben Shahn
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1936
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In The Writing on the Wall, Attie brought the ghosts of pre-World War II Jewish life in Berlin temporarily to life by projecting black-and-white slides of Jewish schools, bookstores, kosher butchers…
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Shimon Attie
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1993
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The Mayse-bukh (Book of Stories), a collection of more than two hundred and fifty stories in Yiddish, was popular among Jews in Western and Eastern Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth…
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Unknown
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Rovere, Venice (Roverè Veronese, Italy)
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1585–1590
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This page illustrating the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is from a Yiddish book of customs from Italy. By the sixteenth century, Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic Jews were the largest groups of…
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Artist Unknown
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1500
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Albatros, a journal of literature and graphic art, debuted in Warsaw in 1922 and published its final two issues in Berlin. The journal was edited by the Hebrew-Yiddish poet Uri Zvi Greenberg and…
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Henryk Berlewi
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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Frontispiece of Anshel of Kraków’s Merkeves ha-mishne (The Second Chariot), a Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary of biblical words. The earliest Yiddish book printed in Poland, it was published in 1534 in…
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Anshel of Kraków, Szmuel, Aszer, and Eljakim Helicz
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1534
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This page is from a manuscript containing stories in Yiddish. It was copied and illustrated in Tannhausen, Germany between 1580 and 1600, for the Ulma family, who owned a number of important…
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Isaac bar Yuda Reutlingen
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Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
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1580–1600
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This magnificent maḥzor (holiday prayer book) was copied—and most likely decorated—by the scribe Isaac bar Mordechai ha-Kohen (Isaac Lankosh of Kraków). (In several places, the name “Isaac” has…
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Isaac Lankosh of Kraków
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1560
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Soyer’s informal family portrait, Dancing Lesson, has become an iconic image of the American Jewish experience, appearing on many book covers and exhibition catalogs. It was painted about thirteen…
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Raphael Soyer
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1926
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This dedication page made by Meshulam Zimmel for Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI (1711–1740) and his wife, Elizabeth Christina (1691–1750), whose portraits appear on the page, presents three versions of…
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Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna
Date:
1733