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Chaim Gliksberg was well-known for his portraits of literary figures. Here, he has pictured Itzik Manger, the celebrated Yiddish poet and playwright. Manger was particularly renowned for his modernist…
Early in his career, Castel often painted pictures of Jews, like these, whose roots were in Arab lands. Many at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, where he studied, believed that Yemenite Jews…
Lubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, drew on the ideas and practices of post-impressionism to create a new modern art of Jewish…
Schatz, a founder of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts, painted this self-portrait around the time the school was temporarily forced to close because of a lack of funds. He has depicted himself in…
In the 1980s and 1990s, Lellouche produced a series of large paintings, self-portraits or portraits of one or two people, set in panoramic landscapes. In Self-Portrait at Sunset, the artist has…
