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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…
Contributor:
Roman Vishniac
Places:
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1935–1938
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Like other paintings by Yehudah Pen, The Watchmaker depicts an encounter between a traditional Jew and modernity. Here, a traditionally dressed watchmaker reads the Warsaw Yiddish newspaper Haynt…
Contributor:
Yehudah Pen
Date:
1914