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While ketubot (marriage contracts) are usually written in Aramaic, Karaite ketubot are written in Hebrew. They are often pentagonal in shape, most often with a pointed bottom. This example has a…
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Artist Unknown
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Chufut-Kale, Russian Empire (Hora Chufutkale, Ukraine)
Date:
1719
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Shpanyer-arbet (spun work) was the name for a type of decorative gold and silver lace that adorned yarmulkes, prayer shawls, and other Jewish ritual garments in Eastern Europe. It was woven on a…
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Sasow, Russian Empire (Sasiv, Ukraine)
Date:
Late 19th–Early 20th Century
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This linen coat with silk-thread embroidery was worn by a Jewish boy in Bukhara (today in Uzbekistan) on the occasion of his bar mitzvah celebration. Jewish economic life in Bukhara was closely tied…
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Bukhara, Russian Empire (Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
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Early 20th Century
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This photograph was made by the young graphic artist and photographer Solomon Yudovin in the context of his participation in Jewish writer, folklorist, and cultural activist S. An-ski’s famed…
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Solomon Yudovin
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Volynskaya, Russian Empire (Volyn, Ukraine)
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1912–1914
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Members of the Bund (General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia), Po‘ale Tsiyon, the Socialist-Zionist party, and Jewish trade unions, along with representatives of the Russian…
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Photographer Unknown
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Mosir, Russian Empire (Mazyr, Belarus)
Date:
1905
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This bronze statue, The Captive, also known as The Slave, is one of the allegorical sculptures for which Maria Dillon is best known. It depicts a woman, whose hands are bound behind her back, bowing…
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Maria Dillon
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1894
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Leonid Pasternak painted young men of the Moscow intelligentsia in student accommodations engaged in an evening study session fueled by tobacco and tea, with a bed depicted on the left and a samovar…
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Leonid Pasternak
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Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1895
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In The Wandering Jew, a man driven mad with horror runs through an apocalyptic landscape full of crucifixes and strewn with corpses. A protest against the long history of Christian persecution of Jews…
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Samuel Hirszenberg
Places:
Lodz, Russian Empire (Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1899
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Glicenstein depicted the Jewish Messiah as a semi-nude figure in the classical style, with bowed head and tethered to his seat. It received early recognition, admired by Rodin and praised in the…
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Henryk Glicenstein
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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ca. 1911
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Issachar Ber Ryback’s drawings of the painted ceiling of what was known as the Cold Synagogue in Mogilev (today in Belarus) are among the few visual records of the work of the painter Chaim ben…
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Issachar Ber Ryback
Places:
Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1916