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This painting exemplifies the decorative plaques that sometimes adorned the eastern walls of synagogues to commemorate the glory of the Temple in Jerusalem and indicate the direction of prayer. In…
Contributor:
Netanel Leichter
Places:
Lwow, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1898
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In 1919, during a civil war raging in Ukraine, a wave of pogroms swept the area around Kiev. In one of them, Manievich’s son was killed, and this painting expresses his grief. The destroyed homes and…
Contributor:
Abraham Manievich
Places:
Kyiv, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1919