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Tikkun Ha-Olam (Repair of the World) is from Benjamin’s Finding Home series, in which the Bombay-born Jewish artist raises questions about what and where “home” is, while addressing issues such as…
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Siona Benjamin
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2000
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Yehudah Pen painted this portrait of Marc Chagall soon after Chagall returned to Vitebsk from Paris in order to marry his sweetheart, Bella. While he was there, World War I broke out, and Chagall was…
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Yehudah Pen
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1914
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Ira Jan
It is my task to introduce to the readers of Múlt és Jövő (Past and Future) to an extraordinary Jewish woman, and it is hard to tell whether she is a greater writer or artist. Those who say…
Contributor:
Imre (Dunajecz Jakab) Abadi
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1914
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Saul Tschernikhovsky is considered one of the great modern Hebrew poets. His poems are part of the canon of Israeli literature, and his portrait appears on Israeli currency. Pasternak painted this…
Contributor:
Leonid Pasternak
Places:
Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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The illustrations Tracht der Juden zu Worms (Jewish Men’s and Women’s Clothing in Worms) show a man and woman in typical Jewish fashion of the sixteenth century. The woman wears a white veil and…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Worms, Habsburg Empire (Worms, Germany)
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16th Century