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In 1919, when Kramer painted The Day of Atonement, modernist art depicting Jewish rituals was considered new and radical, especially in tradition-bound England. When the Jewish community of Leeds…
New York exemplifies the precisionist, futurist style favored by Lozowick in the 1920s. Like works by other precisionist artists, this lithograph reduces the elements of a cityscape into simple…
Percival Goodman won the commission to design the building for Congregation B’nai Israel after speaking at a two-day symposium organized in 1947 by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations to…
Though he later turned to a more abstract style, Elbert Weinberg was still making figurative sculptures in the early 1950s, when a trend toward pure abstraction was already dominant. But Ritual Figure…
This fantastical picture by Florine Stettheimer melds together a biblical pastoral scene (palm trees, sheep, and women dressed in imagined Middle Eastern clothing) with a group of modern American…
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…
In this painting, the elderly proprietor selling newspapers in several languages under the elevated train in Chicago faces away from the hustle and bustle of the street. He and the newspapers are…
This calligraphic print appears in Ben Shahn’s book Alphabet of Creation, based on a tale about how God created the world through the letters of the Hebrew alphabet taken from the Zohar, a thirteenth…
Untitled is from Lee Krasner’s Little Images series from the late 1940s, which the artist painted on small canvases on a table in her bedroom, soon after she and her husband Jackson Pollock moved to…
Herbert Ferber’s twelve-foot-high sculpture was originally commissioned to adorn the façade of Congregation B’nai Israel in Milburn, New Jersey. Percival Goodman, the new building’s architect…
