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In The Dead Class, the most famous of Kantor’s theater pieces from the 1970s, the main characters of the play are elderly men (who are to be understood as being dead), who return to their school desks…
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Tadeusz Kantor
Places:
Kraków, Poland
Date:
1975
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Although Bergner did not personally experience the Holocaust, it was a recurring theme in his art. Here, in a painting in the style of a child’s drawing, a child wearing a hat, typical of others seen…
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Yosl Bergner
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1999
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Head of a Young Jew, Natan Altman’s most famous sculpture, is an expression of his desire to set a new, modern course for Jewish art. The asymmetrical sculpture, a combination of bronze, copper, and…
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Natan Altman
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1916
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Natan turns to memories of her 1950s childhood on a kibbutz as inspiration for many of her works. She often uses everyday materials, such as netting and underwear, in her sculptures, as in this one…
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Efrat Natan
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2005
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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
Places:
Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1910
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Segalove mines her own life for personal narratives as a source for her feminist, conceptual, video, and performance art. Jewish Boys, a photograph of text, tells an anecdote about her first day in a…
Contributor:
Ilene Segalove
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1987