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Soutine was a prominent member of the School of Paris (École de Paris), a group of young artists, many of whom were Eastern and Central European Jews. He has been described as a “liminal” figure. He…
Much of Adler’s work has a Jewish subject. In his native Poland, it was customary for small bands of players to go from house to house performing skits on the holiday of Purim. The group of figures in…
In the 1960s, Audrey Flack began to paint photorealistic pictures with social and political themes, reproducing photographs of people from all walks of life, as well as everyday objects. Farb Family…
Eric Bulatov created many paintings that paired nature scenes with Soviet slogans, suggesting that the control of the Soviet regime was everywhere, in every corner of its citizens’ lives. In Red…
The title of this painting, La Kahena, alludes to a seventh-century military Berber queen who opposed the Arab conquest of North Africa. Legend has it that she was Jewish and also a sorceress. The…
Yitzhak Katzenelson (1885–1944) was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet from Łódź who was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he was extraordinarily prolific as a poet, playwright, translator and public…
Felix Nussbaum painted this self-portrait while he and his wife were in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, about a year before they were arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Every element of the picture…
Moses Reinblatt served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, first as a mechanic and then as an aircraftman. In August 1944, he was appointed an official war artist and was posted in…
Based on a painting, now lost, by Maurits Leon, this lithograph by Johannes Heinrich Rennefeld (1832–1877) seems to depict a scene from an 1837 novel about Spinoza by German Jewish author Berthold…
The Last Breath is one of the genre paintings depicting the lives of fishermen and their families for which Jozef Israëls was best known. In this scene, a woman is weeping over the body of her husband…
