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In the Ma‘abarah
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Ruth Schloss’s artworks were infused with her commitment to social justice and egalitarianism. This painting of a ma‘abarah (refugee absorption camp), made at a time when the new State of Israel was…

Contributor:

Ruth Schloss

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

1953

Subjects:

Painting, Migration, Refugees, Class, Social realism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Abstract painting of camp with many tents and a luminous rectangular area in middle featuring three figures including a mother and child and a clothesline between the tents.
Synagogue Mejor (Bursa, Turkey)
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The Synagogue Mejor is a synagogue in Bursa, Turkey, built in the late fifteenth century by Jews who settled in the Ottoman Empire after being expelled from Majorca. Its name “Mejor” commemorates the…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Bursa, Ottoman Empire (Bursa, Turkey)

Date:

Early 16th Century

Subjects:

Synagogue, Cities, Aesthetics, Refugees, Migration

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Photograph of room with raised central platform with columns and several chandeliers.
Gravestone of Rachel Pereira
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Rachel Soares Pereira, who died in 1721 at the age of twenty-four, was married to Isaac Pereira. Floral motifs decorate the top of her gravestone, while the bottom panel contains a relief of a hand…

Places:

Kingston, British America and the British West Indies (Kingston, Jamaica)

Date:

1721

Subjects:

Cemetery, Death, Sephardic, Refugees

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Decorative Arts
Tombstone with inscription in Hebrew and Portuguese above floral motifs and engraving of hand with an ax reaching out of cloud to chop down tree.