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When it was first built, the Sha‘ar Hashamayim (Gate of Heaven) Synagogue in Cairo was the largest building on the boulevard where it still stands. Built to resemble what was imagined to be the design…
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Maurice Joseph Cattaui, Eduard Matasek
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1905
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Those Who Sow in Tears Will Reap the Harvest, official postcard of the Sixth Zionist Congress, Basel, 1903, with postmark.
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Emil Ranzenhofer
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Basel, Switzerland
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1903
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Postcards, such as this image of the actress as Cleopatra, advertised Sarah Bernhardt’s celebrated performances for global audiences. Born Henriette-Rosine Bernard to a Jewish courtesan of Dutch…
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Napoleon Sarony
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France, France
Date:
1891
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Program cover of a 1911 performance of the Ballet Russe at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, showing Léon Bakst’s costume design for Narcisse.
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Léon Bakst
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Paris, France
Date:
1911
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Founded in 1906 as Rishon Lezion Yafo, the sports association changed its name to Maccabi Tel Aviv in 1910. Maccabi, the first Jewish sports association, was established in Istanbul in 1895 primarily…
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Avraham Soskin, Tsvi Nishri
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1910
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In Jewish tradition, the end of the Sabbath (or a festival) is marked by the ceremony of Havdalah, which includes the ritual smelling of spices (besomim). Many Jewish cultures approached the box…
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Emanuel Eisler
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ca. 1880
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The young Jewish intellectuals of Barcinski’s generation were interested in pushing boundaries, including by employing Christian imagery, as Barcinski did in this portrait of John the Baptist. The…
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Henryk (Hanokh) Barcinski
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Lodz, Second Polish Republic (Łódź, Poland)
Date:
1919
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Frenkel, whose work was shaped by the School of Paris (École de Paris), played a key role in bringing modernism to Israeli art. Among his students were prominent members of what is known as the Land…
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Yitshak Frenkel (Alexandre Frenkel-Frenel)
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Paris, France
Date:
1920
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In the Terezin concentration camp, before a visit by the International Red Cross and the Danish Red Cross in 1944, the Nazis created an elaborate ruse, designed to convince the delegation that the…
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Bedrich Fritta
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1943–1944
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Illustrated folk depiction of the story of Purim by Moshe Mizrachi (Jerusalem: Monsohn, 1902). The top panels depict the villain of the story, Haman, leading the hero Mordechai on a horse and the…
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Moshe Mizrachi
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1902