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In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the lifting of restrictions on Jewish publishing, Jewish theater companies revolutionized theater and scene design and experimented with modernist approaches…
Anatoly Kaplan’s painting Pakhar’ both commemorates the lost Jewish world of his childhood and reflects accepted Soviet iconography. The Yiddish inscription that frames the central image reads,…
Iofin’s portrait of his parents, painted before his emigration from the Soviet Union, was a sly protest against Socialist Realism. He painted in the style but parodied it by overloading his picture…
Cover of Sikhes-khulin: Eyne fun di geshikhtn (Small Talk, or, The Legend of Prague) by Moyshe Broderzon, with illustrations by El Lissitzky. The book is an example of a new modernist style that…
Ḥad Gadya (One Little Goat) is a song customarily sung at the end of the Passover seder. It recounts a sequence of events beginning with a young goat purchased by the protagonist’s father that is then…
Solomon Mikhoels (1890–1948), a Yiddish actor, director of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (GOSET), and later chair of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, was an iconic figure of Soviet Jewish…
Mark Markov-Grinberg took this atmospheric nighttime photograph after he lost his job at the Russian news agency TASS, during the Soviet campaign against Jews. He and other former Jewish…
The audience at the first formal performance by the Habima theater troupe in 1918. This set of short plays, Neshef bereshit (A Festival of Our Beginning), was performed in the Moscow Art Theatre under…
The Traveler was painted soon after the Russian Revolution, around the time that Marc Chagall was appointed commissar of the arts for Vitebsk, the site of Yehudah Pen’s academy, where Chagall had…
The Russian Revolution initially encouraged a flowering of Jewish cultural activity, lifting restrictions on Jewish publishing. Jewish theater companies experimented with modernist approaches to stage…
