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The Day after the Pogrom was painted shortly after the Kishinev pogrom, in which forty-nine Jews were murdered, more than 500 injured, many Jewish women raped, 700 houses ransacked and destroyed, 600…
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…
Issachar Ber Ryback painted Pogrom during the Russian Civil War, when waves of pogroms were occurring in Ukraine and other areas in the former Pale of Settlement. In the foreground a slain man…
The Dutch Sewing School is from a period in Max Liebermann’s career when Dutch peasants were a common subject in his work. The sewing school seen here was in an orphanage in Amsterdam. While he…
In Exile, a column of Jews makes their way across a barren landscape that evokes the desert that the biblical Israelites wandered for forty years. But the people here are clearly East European Jews…
