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Vishniac’s photographs of Jews in Eastern Europe, which were among the last to document these communities before their destruction in the Holocaust, have become iconic images. The best known of them…
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Roman Vishniac
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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1935–1938
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This photograph by Moshe Gross is very much in the tradition of Zionist and Israeli iconography, which favored images stressing the heroic aspects of Zionism and the “new Jews” who were building…
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Moshe Gross
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Date unknown, mid-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)
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1905
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Bruce Davidson took a series of photographs documenting the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. This one, with its dramatic, almost abstract composition, was taken in 1963, the year before…
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Bruce Davidson
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Staten Island, United States of America
Date:
1963
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Alfons Himmelreich created Land is Life as a cover for the May 1940 issue of the magazine A Land in Construction, a publication of the Jewish National Fund. He accepted the commission as an act of…
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Alfons Himmelreich
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1940