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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…
Zoltan Kluger was one of the most influential and prolific photographers in Palestine and, after the establishment of the state, during the first decade of Israel’s existence, as attested to by his…
Weegee, known for his boundless energy and the wildly diverse subject matter to which he was attracted as a photographer, shot this photograph on a hot Saturday in July 1940 for the left-wing tabloid…
The heading of this advertisement for an “excursion” offered by the Yiddish daily newspaper Forverts reads: “From where are you a landsman?” (i.e., What town did you come from in the old county?). It…
Menu for a banquet given in honor of District Grand Lodge No. 7, International Order of B’nai B’rith at the West End Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 11, 1886.
The focus of this photograph is the rank-and-file participants at a socialist May Day rally, rather than the politicians delivering the speeches. Members of the Photo League maintained that it was the…
Menahem Shemi was a member of the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School to create a modern art of Jewish revival. In The…
This set design by Emanuele Luzzatti is for a performance of Golem at the Teatro La Pergola in Florence, Italy. Several operas were based on the famous legend about the clay figure, the Golem, brought…
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…
The Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest is considered an art-nouveau masterpiece. When it was built, it was ground-breaking not only for Hungarian architecture but also for museum architecture in…
